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

[KoReE <koree@squishy.ameth.org>]

I saw this on www.slashdot.org, too.  As far as I can tell, it is legit.
While it's not Linux, it's a new toy at least :D

Koree

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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:

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> 	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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> Yahoo! News Technology Headlines
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> Thursday August 13 11:44 PM ET
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> Sun To Offer Solaris For Free To Noncommercial Users
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> By Charles Babcock, ZDNet
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> 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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