Honestly, I think people are reading too much into the License and looking for reasons to cry wolf. In my discussions with Oracle, the license basically states that if you want to use it in production, you need a support contract. Otherwise it's free for use by developers, enthusiasts, and evaluators.
>From a business perspective it means that you're only paying for support on >your production servers, unless you obviously want the support on your development and test servers. Typically in the past companies would go for a support contract covering the hardware and the operating system, with the differentiation being bronze, silver, gold, and platinum support levels. Could the license be worded better? Of course it could, but how many licenses written by non-technical folks makes sense to technical folks? So at the end of the day, you can either worry over silly stuff like this or just go and install it on your non-production gear and enjoy. Pay for support on your production servers and still save money over Red Hat RHEL 6. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Edward Martinez <mindbende...@live.com> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 3:54:03 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] something about solaris 11 express license(OTN) > > On 19 Nov 2010, at 20:59, Edward Martinez wrote: > > > I was going through the OTN license and I noticed > something that got me thinking > > that solaris 11 express can only be used on one > computer. what if i have was running > > opensolaris on two or more computers at home (non > production form),like, my desktop and laptop.this > means i can only use solaris 11 express only on one > of them. is their a lawyer around here;-) > > IANAL, but the wording seems pretty clear -- one > machine only. The Solaris Express licensing is > different from OpenSolaris because, well, it's not > OpenSolaris. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > -- > CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle > Corporation Ireland Ltd. > mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris > Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 > 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those > of Oracle Corp. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Hi, then as a home user i should really be using opensolaris snv_134b or one of those other distros that are based of opensolaris, like, nexenta,shillix,openindian,etc, instead of solaris 11 express? Regards Edward -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
