Re: SUMMARY: Solaris 2.2 licensing

From: Geoff Rehmet (g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za)
Date: Tue Jun 15 1993 - 02:04:37 CDT


In <1993Jun14.134124.24169@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> chucks@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Chuck Strickland) writes:

> Now the definition of a user is.

> 1. A login from console or directly connected tty.
> 2. An X terminal session.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 3. A remote login session.
Basically, if we cut the crap, this means that there is no point
in the 2 user license, so we can just assume that solaris costs
$1200 (or whatever).

(Am I th eonly person who feels that Sun has made some unpopular
decisions lately ???????)

Is Sun the next Computer manufacturer who (like Big Blue) thinks
they can dictate to the world? - look what happened to Big Blue!

Geoff.

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