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From: Richard B. Gilbert on 11 May 2010 10:01
vedmak wrote:
> On May 11, 6:34 am, Ceri Davies <ceri_use...(a)submonkey.net> wrote:
>> On 2010-05-11, vedmak <vedma...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
>>> however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
>>> that they had patch clusters free of charge.
>> Certainly not for Solaris 7. In fact, I believe that for a new
>> installation of Solaris 7 you would be required to buy a license.
>>
>> Ceri
>> --
>> That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
>> -- Moliere
>
> is there any way to avoid paying them $300 a year? Such as student
> accounts or developer accounts?

Yes! Learn to live without support.

There is NO way you are going to get support for Solaris 7!!!!!!!
Solaris 7 is somewhere between ten and fifteen years old. Solaris 10 is
current and supported. If you are willing to pay Sun a LOT OF MONEY,
you might still be able to get support for Solaris 9. You might find a
third party willing and able to provide support for S8 but it would be
incredibly expensive!!!

That's the way the computer business works.

Is there some good reason why you feel you must run a version of Solaris
that old?
From: Chris Ridd on 11 May 2010 10:08
On 2010-05-11 14:46:41 +0100, Michael Laajanen said:

> Hi,
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> vedmak wrote:
>>> I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
>>> however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
>>> that they had patch clusters free of charge.
>>
>> Several years ago, Sun changed its business model. Solaris was
>> licensed without charge. Support is something you must pay for.
>> Patches are part of support.
>>
>> Since Solaris is Open Source, in principle you could fix all the bugs
>> yourself. In practice, you probably don't want become sufficiently
>> familiar to maintain a couple of million lines of code!
>>
>> Solaris 7 hasn't been supported for several years now. Just guessing,
>> it's something like ten or twelve years since S7 was current!
>
> S7 5/99 was the last I received

Solaris 7's phase 2 end date (see
<http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_solaris.html>) was 15th August
2008. If you had deep pockets you might have been able to get patches
before then.

--
Chris

From: Andrew Gabriel on 11 May 2010 12:24
In article <84t5e1F6a5U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Michael Laajanen <michael_laajanen(a)yahoo.com> writes:
> Hi,
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> vedmak wrote:
>>> I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
>>> however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
>>> that they had patch clusters free of charge.
>>
>> Several years ago, Sun changed its business model. Solaris was licensed
>> without charge. Support is something you must pay for. Patches are
>> part of support.
>>
>> Since Solaris is Open Source, in principle you could fix all the bugs
>> yourself. In practice, you probably don't want become sufficiently
>> familiar to maintain a couple of million lines of code!
>>
>> Solaris 7 hasn't been supported for several years now. Just guessing,
>> it's something like ten or twelve years since S7 was current!
>
> S7 5/99 was the last I received

I think 11/99 was the last. I used to run it on a 486 with IP-filter
as my firewall. It was the last release which supported ISA-bus NICs,
and that 486 was too old to have any PCI slots ;-)

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
From: Axel Neumann on 11 May 2010 13:45
Am 11.05.2010 12:56, schrieb vedmak:
> I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
> however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
> that they had patch clusters free of charge.

Hello,

AFAIK Oracle changed the rules. No support contract - no patches.

Best regards
Axel Neumann
From: vedmak on 11 May 2010 17:16
On May 11, 7:36 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
> vedmak wrote:
> > I recently installed solaris 7 and created myself a sunsolve account,
> > however to get to patches I need to have premium account? I thought
> > that they had patch clusters free of charge.
>
> Several years ago, Sun changed its business model.  Solaris was licensed
> without charge.  Support is something you must pay for.  Patches are
> part of support.
>
> Since Solaris is Open Source, in principle you could fix all the bugs
> yourself.  In practice, you probably don't want become sufficiently
> familiar to maintain a couple of million lines of code!
>
> Solaris 7 hasn't been supported for several years now.  Just guessing,
> it's something like ten or twelve years since S7 was current!

I agree with the part that support must be paid for, but old patches?
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