Hi Folks:
Some of you asked about the Solaris/X86 program. Well. This
is not exactly a free Solaris give a way. But you do get
the source code. Stand Alone Solaris/X86 is $100, but if
you buy another SUN produce, it is free. You can get the
development tools from the:
sun.com
and solaris freeware:
smc.vnet.net
There you can find gcc/g++ ... etc. and all your popular GNU
stuff.
Have fun!
- Chung
Sorry for the bad format.
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Solaris SPARC and Intel Source Code
Program
Sun's education customers have requested that we
take a fresh look at technology licensing for teaching
and research. We are starting with Solaris (TM)
operating environment and overhauling the program,
taking into account the feedback we have been given,
and adding some new features.
Sun is interested in what it's customers do with source
code and wants to share ideas for improvement with
researchers worldwide. Specifically, this program
encourages the sharing of source code changes and
the evaluation and possible integration of these
changes into future releases of Solaris operating
environment.
What are the main elements of the
program?
Source Code includes both SPARC and Intel
We have included both SPARC and Intel source
code. The device driver developers kit (now
called DDS) is available for free download and
use. Since Solaris (TM) 2.6 release we have
been shipping the common source tree product
which is the same for Intel and SPARC along with
CDROMs and floppy disks for the machine
dependent parts and supporting manuals and
documentation.
Code sharing & integration in to Solaris
release schedules
Customers have told us that they would
appreciate being able to share source code
changes with other universities, other research
projects, and with Sun's Solaris engineering
teams. We are building the procedures
necessary to support these aims through an
email list at Sun and a web page on this server.
Licensing agreement
Download the agreement.
We hope that you understand that we must
protect our intellectual property rights and
Solaris source code contains many key
technologies that differentiate Sun from it's
competitors. Never-the-less, we recognise the
benefits of making this available to you, but do
ask that you complete an agreement governing
it's use. At this time, the agreement includes a
clause that requires that you mount and use the
source code from a dedicated non-networked
system.
For those of you that are already technology
licensees, you will be pleased to know that we
have made the new agreement cover all future
revisions -- this could be the last Solaris
source code agreement you sign. We have also
made sure that there is one agreement covering
all Sun business units.
Support
Clearly it is not easy to support a worldwide
audience for such a complex source code
product as Solaris (TM) operating environment
at a reasonable cost. However, Sun is
investigating a way to provide support for the
source code program both logistically and
technically over email. Please note that we do not
currently [and have no plans to] support source
code through Sun Service.
Revision Updates
Source code updates will normally be made
available for each major and minor revision. For
example Solaris 2.5.1 and Solaris 2.6 are/have
been available. When new revisions ship as
binary code, source code usually lags by 30-90
days afterwards. The next major revision is
Solaris 2.7. There are no plans for minor
revisions of 2.6. SPARC hardware specific
maintenance releases will not normally be made
available. An example of such a release is
Solaris 2.7 3/95.
The same mechanism is used for obtaining
updated source code as is used for the first copy
-- the difference is that a new license agreement
is not needed.
How do I place an order?
Order process
When you make the call to Sun, we will need to
establish your entitlement to the program. For
universities, colleges, and schools it will be
obvious, for others please be prepared to explain
why you are to be treated as an education
customer.
Next we will ask you to sign the technology
licensing agreement. This can be faxed, mailed,
or emailed to you. We will ask that a member of
the faculty or staff sign this agreement --
preferably a departmental head. We may enter
your order into our database at this stage or
later, but will not ship the source code until the
agreement is signed and returned to our legal
department and they approve shipment to Sun's
order processing group.
Provided that you order another Sun product with
the source code, we will discount the source
code line item to $0. The Part number is
UNSOL-2.6-SRC, and the stand alone price is
$100
Who do I call?
USA: please call Sun Telesales
1-800-786-0404
Elsewhere in the world please contact your local
Sun Sales office
Java in Education
Contact: Graham Lovell
Graham.Lovell@Sun.Com |
