On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM PDT, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > This is good in one way, and misleading in another. AFAIK, > Oracle support is premium only; no standard, let alone > patch+SunSolve only.
They charge $120/system for only patches, updates, and security support. q.v. Linux section of http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists Or are you referring to Solaris pricing? If you're talking about Solaris then yes, their new model appears to be a decision between whole system support (hardware and software) or operating system support. If you take this in context of their Linux pricing it appears that they are suggesting that Solaris has "luxury car" pricing whereas Linux has "economy car" pricing. Many on this list as well as those on the Illumos and OpenIndiana lists have argued quite succinctly that Solaris and SPARC are still industry leading technologies that offer a great deal of benefits that just can't be matched by other architectures and/or operating systems. I believe some of the discussion was also centered around RISC vs. CISC as well but you're welcome to look through the archives for your own edification. > Understand me: I want to see source, without dropping megabucks, > even though I have no interest in creating my own distro (or feeding it > to anyone else's). Most particularly, I'd really like to see as much of > the source as possible for what I'm actually running, and a straightforward > way of keeping my view of the source in sync with what I'm running. AFAIK, the only source that's been restricted is the OS/Net portion of Solaris which was never open sourced in the first place -- it was merely placed in a public repository without any changes to its license and recently moved back to a private repository. See the OS/Net description here for more info: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on Everything else has thus far been unrestricted as that's how OpenIndiana has been able to build their distribution in much the same way CentOS and Oracle have been able to build theirs. The biggest differentiation is in the lack of OS/Net updates going forward which is why the Illumos project was formed in the first place. However, we're still waiting to see if/when Oracle delivers their promised source drop of OS/Net but I don't imagine it to come out as regularly as the Express builds but rather after their stable mainline Solaris builds the same way Apple drops their Darwin source only after a major binary patch release. -Gary _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
