[geeks] Solaris licensing question

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:20:57PM +1200, ghub005 wrote:
> I've just got a quick Solaris licensing question. One of my clients wants to 
> install a used Sun system (from a broker) as a backup for their production 
> system. If they put it under a Sun software maintenance agreement, will they 
> also get an RTU for Solaris? I know this used to be the case but their Sun 
> rep indicated that they'd need to buy the system from Sun to get the RTU.
> I've looked at the following document but it isn't clear.
> http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing/policies.html

When we had Platinum support (no idea if it changed when we downgraded to
Bronze), we had RTUs for everything (included), and all we had to do to get
Solaris media was ask our SE, who would respond "how many copies do I need
to send?"

We were never asked/audited about "proper number of RTUs for number of
systems".  

In fact, I've *never* heard of this being done, anywhere - I think Sun has 
the unofficial viewpoint of "we'd rather you run Solaris than something
else."

Bill

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bill bradford
austin texas