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From: andy thomas on 16 Apr 2010 00:20 On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Ceri Davies wrote: > On 2010-04-15, andy thomas <andy(a)ic.ac.uk> wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, John D Groenveld wrote: >> >>> In article <Pine.GSO.4.64.1004142316480.20369(a)anahata>, >>> andy thomas <andy.thomas(a)ic.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> whether these apply retrospectively to existing Solaris installations - >>>> what is the situation where someone has bought the Solaris 9 media kit a >>>> few years ago and installed this (or Solaris 10 from a registered >>>> download) on a number of systems? >>> >>> IANAL nor a barrister but I assume that Oracle cannot change the >>> EULA that you and Sun previously agreed to. >> >> That's what I thought. And I assume if I use the CDs from that media kit >> today to install Sol 9 on another system I have bought on eBay, for >> example, the EULA that was in force at the time I bought the media kit >> would still be valid? > > Yes, although that EULA probably only allows you to install it on one > system. With Solaris 10, when I registered for the download, the web form asked how many production systems, how many development systems, etc it was going to be installed on - I assume this was to gather statistics on Sol 10 deployments as I never received any paperwork confirming entitlement to install it on X production servers, Y dev systems, etc. Out of interest, does anyone know the annual cost of a basic Sun (sorry, I meant Oracle) service plan to cover patch and patch cluster downloads for, say, 15 systems? Andy
From: John D Groenveld on 16 Apr 2010 00:51
In article <Pine.GSO.4.64.1004160510270.22006(a)anahata>, andy thomas <andy.thomas(a)ic.ac.uk> wrote: >Out of interest, does anyone know the annual cost of a basic Sun (sorry, I >meant Oracle) service plan to cover patch and patch cluster downloads for, >say, 15 systems? Negotiable. <URL:http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/operating-systems/index.html> Let us know what the sales critter proposes. John groenveld(a)acm.org |