new solaris 10 license

Question

Does the license of Solaris 10 is not free (I know is not was open source) since the purchase of Sun by Oracle? Now is a 90 days trial ?

Answer 1

When you download Solaris 10 from the Oracle website for free, the license says that you can use it for:

1. Developing
2. Testing
3. Prototyping
4. Demonstrating your applications
5. no other purpose!

If you want to use it in production, you must have a support contract.

The 90-day trial was dropped in all circumstances.

Answer 2

Yes, as far as I know, it has been Oraclefied and now costs money. Oracle loves to visit your wallet often.

Answer 3

That depends on your usage, see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/solaris-cluster-express-license-167852.html

Answer 4

Your hardware may include a license. Besides the Sun/Oracle hardware, Dell and others sell hardware with Solaris license options.

Of course there's always the open source version: http://openindiana.org/

I wouldn't use that for production until there's a stable release. It does seem to work well on my test boxes.

Answer 5

Yes, see http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/popup.jsp?info=17