[SunHELP] Purchasing Solaris on Intel

[Tige D. Chastain]

Maarten Deen wrote:
> 
> Tige D. Chastain:
> 
> > If you are not purchasing it for a business, you can freely download
> > Solaris 8 from sun to install on up to 99 CPUs (individual computers
> > that is) without being required to purchase a license for the software.
> > That is, as long as binaries are okay for you.
> 
> Has the number of free licenses gone up? Last time I checked ( when Solaris
> 8 00/01 was current), I thought it was limited to 8 processors. Or was this
> 8 processors per machine?
> 
> Maarten

Number of processors per machine is 8.  But I believe that you can
install it on 99 machines before Sun requires you to email them for a
higher limit (or purchase).  

Sorry for the confusion!

Tige