Sun To Offer Solaris For Free To Noncommercial Users (fwd)

["Richard H. Fifarek" <rfifarek@som.siu.edu>]

	Don't know if this is legit, but would be cool if it was.

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:01:43 -0500
From: Sathish Gopalrao <sgopalrao@som.siu.edu>
To: iscstaff
Cc: jdeken@siumed.edu
Subject: Sun To Offer Solaris For Free To Noncommercial Users


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Thursday August 13 11:44 PM ET

Sun To Offer Solaris For Free To Noncommercial Users

By Charles Babcock, ZDNet

Sun Microsystems Inc. said recently that it is going to make its Solaris
operating system available for free to
noncommercial users on both its Sparc and Intel Corp.'s hardware.

Those qualified to receive Solaris for $20 - to cover shipping and handling
- include educators, researchers and
students, said Sun spokesman Ry Schwark. The giveaway is part of an
expanded Sun Developer Connection program.
Noncommercial developers may order a copy at www.sun.com/developers.
Academics and researchers may order a
copy at www.sun.com/edu/solaris.

Sun recently reduced the price of Solaris for one- to four-processor
servers to $695, a price point below the competing
Microsoft Corp. Windows NT.

Sun's decision to make its operating system available for free in certain
cases follows the appearance of Linus Torvalds
on the cover of the Aug. 10 issue of Forbes magazine. His photo illustrates
an article on the growing acceptance of
the open source code movement, in which developers collaborate on the
software product over the Internet, then make
it available for free. Torvalds is the author of Linux, a free version of
Unix that runs on Intel hardware.

Kim Jones, Sun's vice president for academic and research computing, said
the Sun giveaway keeps Solaris in step
with Sun's Java Development Kit, which also is available for free. "This is
the ideal complement to the Sun program
that offers free Java development tools for teaching," she said.

Sun's move also follows IBM Corp.'s announcement that it will include the
Apache open source code Web server in
its WebSphere application server, as well as announcements from Informix
Corp. and Oracle Corp. that the companies
were offering their database management systems under Linux.

Sun can be reached at www.sun.com
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