[ale] OpenSolaris now trial only

[Lightner, Jeff]

Interesting article:

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7749/1.html

 

In essence it says that Sun has added clause to the download info for
OpenSolaris that makes it a 90 day trial which expires if you don't buy
support.

 

It also seems to suggest that UNIX is dead but I'm not sure I buy that.
Having 10 app servers with Linux on them and 2 clustered high end UNIX
Servers with massive databases on them is like comparing apples to
oranges.   Using that kind of measurement would mean MS NT/200x had
killed UNIX long ago like it wanted to.   Also if you do the numbers
that way it would mean Linux is also "dead" despite its growth.   

 

Although with more and more cores becoming available in Intel x86_64 it
does seem like eventually there will be little need for proprietary
architectures that most UNIX commercial variants are tied to.   In fact
I was just mentioning the other day that HP quit shipping their own RISC
based systems last year in favor of Itanium and may soon find they're
the only ones using Itanium.  RedHat announced recently that they
weren't going to support Itanium in future releases.
 
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