leohung
asked on
license question for SOlaris 8
Hi everybody,
I have license question for the SUN OS license. If I want to install the Solaris 8 into a x86 computer for development. It means that the machine only use by myself. Do I need to buy the Sun OS 8 license? or SunOS 8 also is open source??
Thanks a lot.
LEO
I have license question for the SUN OS license. If I want to install the Solaris 8 into a x86 computer for development. It means that the machine only use by myself. Do I need to buy the Sun OS 8 license? or SunOS 8 also is open source??
Thanks a lot.
LEO
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
If you just going to do development on it.
Why not download Soalris 10? Free license with it (for single CPU machines).
Just an idea.
Why not download Soalris 10? Free license with it (for single CPU machines).
Just an idea.
Wow. That's quite a change. I didn't know that Sun had started charging for the x86 version of Solaris 8.
Given that, I echo the previous comments, in that unless you really need Solaris 8, go get Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 for free. I wouldn't pay that much for Solaris v8 x86.
Given that, I echo the previous comments, in that unless you really need Solaris 8, go get Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 for free. I wouldn't pay that much for Solaris v8 x86.
If you are truly doing development work .. you will need to contact SUN directly and see if they will let you d/l Solaris 8 w/o cost ...