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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2 vs Windows NT: Sun is losing the desktop on price
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.235025.6322@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:50:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.114542.29767@fulcrum.oz.au> paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham) says:
- :
- : dank@cco.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel) writes:
- : >whereas Solaris 2 is priced at $1000 or so.
- :
- : The Solaris 2.1 CD-ROM for SPARCstations in AUSTRALIA is AUD$100. That's
- : about USD$67 at today's exchange rate (I don't know what the US list is).
- : With OpenWindows for $0.00.
- : Where do you get the $1000 from?
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- That AUD$100 gets you a copy of the distribution media. It doesn't buy
- you the legal right to actually install it on any machines. For that
- you need to buy a Right To Use License (RTU for short) for each
- system. Which costs several hundreds of dollars (US$600 leaps to mind
- but that is probably for 4.1.3).
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