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Solaris 9 Support On x86 - But With A Price
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.
yea... goatse.cx
second post baby....
Don't you mean slow-laris?
Why pay uberbucks for Solaris on x86 instead of using Slackware or OpenBSD for free?
please check that goatse.cx link, it's coming up 404.
But it still didn't work.
Have you been in a hole for a year or so? Sun released Solaris 8 for the x86 quite some time ago. This is not news. It's just a new version.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Solaris is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Solaris community when IDC confirmed that Solaris market
share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of
a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Solaris has lost more market share, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. Solaris is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by
falling dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Great Baldini to predict Solaris's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Solaris faces
a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Solaris because Solaris is dying. Things are looking
very bad for Solaris. As many of us are already aware, Solaris continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like
a river of blood.
Solaris is the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of its core founder. The sudden and unpleasant
departure of long time Solaris CEO Scott McNealy only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no
longer be any doubt: Solaris is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Solaris OS leader Scott McNealy states that there are 7000 users of Solaris OS. How many users of Solaris are
there? Let's see. The number of Solaris OS versus Solaris posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1.
Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Solaris users. Solaris OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of
Solaris posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Solaris OS. A recent article put Solaris at about 80
percent of the Solaris market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Solaris users. This is consistent
with the number of Solaris Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Sun, abysmal sales and so on, Solaris went out of business and was taken over by Sun who
sell another troubled OS: Solaris. Now Solaris is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Solaris has steadily declined in market share. Solaris is very sick and its long term
survival prospects are very dim. If Solaris is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Solaris
continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes,
Solaris is dead.
Fact: Solaris is dying