| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:53:22 -0400 |
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:17:08PM -0400, W. Chris Shank wrote: > I have a client who has solaris 7 on sparc Ultra5's. The question came > up as to moving them to linux, solaris 8 or leaving as solaris 7. I wouldn't do any of these things. If these systems are still on a service contract with Sun, I'd definitely use Solaris 9. If not, I'd probably use NetBSD/sparc, since it's sparc codebase is far more mature than Linux's. But I don't guess I'd begrudge your using Linux. > Uses are for DNS and NIS(+). I question whether NIS+ is available > on linux (I recall that it wasn't a fewyears back - but this may > have changed), Linux support for NIS+ is poor at best. The typical excuse for this can't sound anything but lame: "NIS+ is too complicated, you really just want to use NIS." Yeah, sure, great, because I LIKE any random user having the ability to ypcat shadow... > if we move to solaris 8 what the licensing cost is, and what disadvantage > there is to staying with solaris 7 (not current - patches, support > lifespan, etc). If you're paying Sun for annual support already, there's no cost at all. If you're not paying Sun, I think there's a one time fee for the software (and a bit more than that for the media). That's all documented quite well on Sun's website, if memory serves. (Solaris licenses do not, as IRIX licenses do, carry with the hardware, but they're not particularly expensive from a business point of view, and they're not recurring until you want a new version of the OS.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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