[rescue] Oracle and Sun BIOS updates. (vent)

[Gaz God]

I think you may need to set-up a shop selling them, as its probably going to
be the only sales growth area with sun geeks :D

Gaz

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Larry Ellison: F*** Him (tm)
>
> I need to get a t-shirt printed with that on.
>
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> On 29 Jun 2010, at 15:38, Barry Callahan <barryc at rjlsystems.com> wrote:
>
> > You know, I could understand Sun wanting you to have a paid service
> contract
> to be able to download the Solaris patch clusters. They provided updates
> not
> just for the kernel and other core  parts of the operating system but all
> software that was distributed on the OS install media. Although, I grumbled
> about their decision to charge for access to the updates when you could
> download the install media for free.
> >
> > Now, we're no longer using Solaris, but we've got a few Sun Ultra 24s in
> service running linux that I'd like to install the latest BIOS revision on.
> Before getting bought by Oracle, you didn't have to have a paid service
> contract to get access to BIOS and firmware updates. Guess what? Now that
> Oracle owns them, now you do.
> >
> > Argh.
> >
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