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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Craig Jacobs who wrote (10826)	8/11/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: micromike	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

This is a very interesting strategy. Solaris: Free for the Taking pubs.cmpnet.com Sun Microsystems plans to offer its Solaris operating system free-of-charge for non-commercial uses. Approved "non-commercial" uses include teaching, research, software development, software testing and other non-commercial use on PCs or SPARC workstations. Sun will charge these users a nominal fee to handle the cost of media, shipping and handling. Public domain software that is precompiled and formatted for easy installation on all Solaris platforms and releases can be downloaded for free from www.sunfreeware.com. Free Java tools are available at sun.com/edu/java/free. ---