[fw]Sun to give Solaris 10 for free

[funggorgor]

From yahoo news
"After investing roughly $500 million and spending years of development time on its next-generation operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce an aggressive price for the software ?free."


good news:thumbsup:

 

[n0cmonkey]

It's only good if you like Solaris and have supported hardware. I don't care much for Solaris (or is it just Solaris admins that are getting on my nerves today? ), but I do have the hardware.

 

[Nothinman]

They're trying to get back some of the sales they're losing to Linux, but they don't realize the price is only a small factor in why Linux is gaining popularity.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
It's only good if you like Solaris and have supported hardware. I don't care much for Solaris (or is it just Solaris admins that are getting on my nerves today? ), but I do have the hardware.

Hence, it's good for me

Aside from that, I agree with Nothinman.

 

[mastertech01]

64bit Mandrake at that price would be nice.

 

[Anubis08]

Maybe Microsoft will try this approach. I doubt it but one can always dream.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

I might just mess with Sun Solaris for fun.

 

[djdrastic]

Agh Crap , more Sun Systems that I'm gonna hae to minatain . Network managers go weajk at the kness when they hear sun

 

[Nothinman]

I might just mess with Sun Solaris for fun.

Nothing's been stopping you from doing that for years now, the only difference is that now the source will be available as well as the OS for free.

Maybe Microsoft will try this approach. I doubt it but one can always dream.

It would never happen, they're not losing enough money to Linux yet. And even if they were, they would have to strip out all of the code that they don't own and it would take a long time to do that without crippling the system.

 

[Dragonbate]

Not to be a thread crapper bu this is old news. I downloaded the prerelease version from Sun some time ago when they first announced it was going to be free. I downloaded the x86 version but haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Dragonbate
Not to be a thread crapper bu this is old news. I downloaded the prerelease version from Sun some time ago when they first announced it was going to be free. I downloaded the x86 version but haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

The prerelease I tried was pretty buggy.
Couldn't even start CDE on an Ultra5 I installed it on.

The final works fine though.