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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Re:$20 for testing? by mrseigen · 2002-10-28 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

It's weird, the smaller Sun's installed base gets, the angrier they get at the x86 customers.
Finally UNIX comes to x86! by truth_revealed · 2002-10-28 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

We can all throw out our 32-bit DOS extenders now that Sun has graced us with an x86 UNIX.