Re: Oracle for Solaris 2.7

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:38:12 +0100, "James Collings" <james_at_futuress.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

>Does anybody know where I can source Oracle for Solaris 2.7, in the same
>style as the Educational "cheapware" Solaris x86 from Sun.
>
>Obviously I can spend the $x,xxx for the full release, however, the schools
>budget won't stretch that far. Anything up to the $100 mark would be cool.
>I have seen that Oracle do 30 day evaluation licenses, anybody got
>experience of this here in the UK? Or better still, anybody know if the
>license can be "waived" for Education reasons.

Oracle do not offer the 30-day evaluation licenses in the UK (at least not the last time I asked, the sons-of-bad-girls), and unfortunately the 150Mb+ downloads are only available for NT, Linux, Netware, and SCO UnixWare. Personally, I reckon if Oracle Corp are going to standardise prices worldwide, they might as well make sure the evaluation offers are worldwide too. It's a Global Village(TM) with equal access to information regardless of geography, etc., etc... [more tree-hugging-net-hippy crap autocensored]

If you have an x86 architecture machine, why not get Linux and then download the evaluation software from the States?

• Check this out warning *** As I understand it, and I may very well be absolutely wrong, Oracle on Linux is free for development purposes (you pay if you deploy the product in a commercial venture). But check this out - make sure for yourself. Better than an educational license though.
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Gary
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You know the score - my current employer has nothing to do with what I post Received on Wed Jul 21 1999 - 07:50:19 CDT