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Sun to Sell Unbundled Solaris 9
An anonymous reader writes "Sun VP John Loiacono told eWEEK that the company is scrapping its plan to limit Solaris 9 support to Sun x86 hardware. Loiacono said the version for non-Sun hardware will retail for $99 for a single CPU and that the company is committed to supporting both Sun and non-Sun hardware in the future. Sun will also publicize the compatibility test suite it used internally, and said it may ultimately open the code for the product to the open source community."
Well according to this-here ad on Slashdot, we should be running Microsoft Small Business Server!
Look at Star Office- Version 5.2 could be downloaded for free and version6 has to be paid for. I dont think they are going to show their sources, they are probably going the other way. The Release of Solaris for x86 is because the recognize that their hardware is too expensive for the desktop and they want to earn in that area, too. No doubt Solaris (i just saw Sparc) is a graet OS for great hardware, able to do things, you can't do with Linux, but it simply is too expensive for the desktop.