Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> No. I beg to differ. It is free for deployment now. I expressly asked
> Sun regarding this question. Solaris 7 was free for development only,
> Solaris 8 is free for commercial usage. However, it is true that the
> distribution is free for machines with only 8 cpus or less, but a thorough
> reading of the licensing and discussions with Sun indicate that on machines
> such as E4500 are OK UNTIL you reach the 8 cpu limitation.
Crossed wires I think - I was referring to Oracle being free for
development & evaluation. Solaris is indeed free for any machine
capable of only 8 CPUs or less. The Solaris 8 source code will also be
available for free in 60 days, now Solaris 8 has shipped.
Alan Burlison
Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
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