[rescue] Sun licensing costs (was Re: E10k systems coming down inprice)

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:47:24AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:31:34 -0700
> "John Mothershead" <john at backyardtech.com> wrote:
> 
> > Please excuse my ignorance, is Suns licensing based on the honor system or
> > is there a license code that must be obtained and entered to enable
> > additional processors? I've worked on multi-proc systems, but I admit I'm
> > a bit clueless with regard to licensing.
> > 
> 
> Honor system.  There's nothing preventing you from loading and using Sol9 on
> a multi-proc system.

Good, I'd hate to actually get some way I could run my E3000 again and
then find that Sol9 wouldn't run on it.  :)


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