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Sun Solaris 9 for x86 for Evaluation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the imagine-how-useless-that-would-be dept.

Rune Tønnesen writes "Sun has listent to their costomers, they have a released Sun Solaris 9 x86 for test and evaluation purposes, it can be downloaded ($20) as part of their OE Customer Early Access software.""

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  1. Re:Sun makes money by making everything work toget by mrjohnson · · Score: 0, Troll

    pfft. So he sent you a new box, that's nice and all but if you'd gone with commodity hardware and FOSS software you wouldn't have had to make the call in the first place.

    Any service that I run can easily be moved to another server. Probably with a performance hit (the reason for having multiple in the first place) but it's still much faster to run a tape restore than wait for a system in the mail.

    The point is: if you're locked into proprietary software/hardware, it doesn't make a difference how nice the vendor is. You're still locked in.