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Wednesday, January 26, 2000

Sun to make Solaris easy to buy! -- 1:57 pm CST, Update by The Master

Sun Microsystems is planning to announce huge price slashing on their Solaris UNIX line, with the base price being $79 for bundled applications (read: the OS is FREE) and with the ability to modify the source. Wow. Excellent news for all those ISPs out there who run on Solaris. Saw this in an article on C|Net Thanks DT.

Qbe comments: This certainly will be positive for a lot of Solaris users (but Sun will still charge for machines with more than 8 CPUs). However, for at least the last year Sun has made Solaris available for "free" to individual users (you must pay for media and shipping, ~$20). If you want to run Solaris on your x86 or Sparc, you can get Solaris 7 and a preview of Solaris 8 at http://www.sun.com/developers/tools/solaris/index.html.

Running Solaris at home is cool and does look good on the resume, but Linux and BSD still give you more, IMHO.

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