Re: Solaris

John Looney (johnl@horizon.ie)
Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:36:39 +0100

Ar Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 02:52:47PM -0500, scriofa Edward Welbon:
> I don't argue your points, but the "desktop" solaris intel license is
> about $500(*) and the "server" intel license is about $2800(*). So
> solaris on a pair of boxes costs $1000 but solaris on a 2 way box costs
> $2800 (that is as much or more than the cost of a 2 way intel box). That
> is a bit expensive.
>
> (*) These are rough but close costs (within 10%); $500 is for a single
> user and single CPU license. According to a Sun representative, single
> user means that with one user login active an anonymous ftp will not be
> allowed by the single user license. I didn't get the details on the
> server license as the cost is out of the question for my needs.=

Perhaps I'm being the devils advocate here, but there are two server
licenses - a five user license is ~$1295 and an unlimited user license is
~$1295 extra. Of course, you can get up to a 35% discount off that
depending on who you are. That's very cheap for a commerical Unix.

Compare that to $1800 for an NT five user server license (with email).
http://www.standishgroup.com/syst.html has more on cost of the two. AFAIK
SCO is priced similar to NT. Still doesn't come close to the price of linux
however. $2600 will get you a *lot* of support from Cygnus. And source
license for the linux kernel is a tad cheaper too ;)

Kate

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