Re: Solaris

Darren Reed (darrenr@cyber.com.au)
Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:13:19 +1000 (EST)

In some mail I received from SethMeister G., sie wrote
[...]
> This is nothing like that :) Sun is not hiding the fact that this is the
> case. Is it really so outrageous? I mean, you would pay a factor of the
> price for putting it on another machine, wouldn't you? What's the big
> difference between doing that and adding a second processor (and getting a
> caparable performace boost?).

I don't think it is an intelligent move, on their behalf, to link the
license with the # of cpu's.

But, when you buy Sun Sparc hardware (multiple cpu's) this restriction does
not exist.