Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:45:57 +0900 (JST) From: Nobuhiro Kurihara <kurihara@rindou.Japan.Sun.COM> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clones prices... Message-ID: <199811200245.LAA06180@uganju.Japan.Sun.COM>
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> > > Hum... These prices are not competitive compared to the Intel world, but I know > > > it's Sun world 8( > > > > > > Another question: are they competitive compared to Sun Ultra5/10? > > > > It should be so. But I suspect Ultra5/10 may drop the price... > > > > Hum.... When Will Sun publish its next list about prices? If Ultra 5/10 drop, > maybe Axi drops. Right? > > (I hope! I'm a student and students are not rich.... 8( ) Not only student can mean "not rich" Please don't ask me about price :-) Actually, the price is changing so often, I can show only a snapshot. (And, I'm not a sales person) > > This RTU is a right to use Solaris. For these boards, CD-ROM or > > any other media is not shipped with the board. If OEM has RTU > > they can install Solaris and use it. Media is sold as separate > > product. Many OEMs don't want to receive same CD-ROM sets with > > every single board :-) > > What does this mean from the user's point of view? I'm a student so I can buy > Solaris for media cost, but without RTU can I install my new > (ipotetical) beautiful Solaris 2.7 on these Boards? I mean, Have I to buy > something like a licence or the motherboard and Solaris is enough? Legally speaking, if your media doesn't come with RTU, you cannot. The licensing/product matrix is complex enough to be confused. But, there's a hope for non-commercial Solaris users, I believe you can get FREE from Sun. Please refer: http://www.sun.com/developers/promofaq.html nob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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