Solaris 9 Support On x86 - But With A Price

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 28, 2002 @05:45AM from the need-to-make-money dept.

choka writes "According to this ZDNet UK article, Solaris 9 will return to x86 platform for $99 instead of being free. There will also be a $20 early access version for testing. Support and update will cost $75 per month. However there is no mention on the Solaris web site yet." There's more than just not being free -- originally, rumor had it that Sun was not going to be supporting, in a major way, Solaris 9 on x86 at all -- that decision has now been reversed. See our past article for information about the original decision.

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The obvious question by vlad_petric · 2002-10-28 06:10 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Who would use Solaris/x86 ? I mean, as a previous post mentioned, a default install is basically useless, furthermore there are very few apps precompiled for it (and I don't think it does well in terms of hardware support either).
It's usually Linux eating up Solaris' market share, not the other way around.
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