[geeks] Oracle Solaris may not be "free as in beer" going forward

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 07:37:56 CDT 2010


Story here: http://www.katonda.com/news/solaries-no-more-free-open-solaris-may-die/936/2010

Open Solaris is being drained of resources, Oracle Solaris will have a
90 day free trial, then you will have to pay for the OS (similar to
what MS does with Win 7/Server 2008). Future enhancements may be
retained for "paying" customers, akin to how some MySQL developments
are witheld from the free software base.

Figured folks here would be interested, I haven't seen any posts on
this (yet), so I thought I'd share...

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Lionel Peterson
lionel4287 at gmail.com



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