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I'ld be a bit surprised if anyone here could answer that particular question. Most people here seems to be engineers who are very good at answering technical question, but who are at a loss when it comes to licensing.

Personally i have no idea how Solaris is licensed after the Oracle takeover.

If you want a fast and reliable answer in this case you might have to contact Oracle.

Still, i'm really interested in the answer to this question :)

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As I know, for get patches you should by support.

For Oracle branded servers Solaris support include to hardware support.

Price for non-Oracle branded x86 servers : https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/product?p1=oraclesolaris&sc=ocom_solarispremiersubscription



Regards.

Since you has SPARC server, after some grace period, if you want Solaris support or HW support
1)SW only 8% of the system cost, System support: 12% of the system cost, only 7x24 Primer support options
same for x86 system form Oracle
2)OTN license , read it carefully, in your case, you will need to access some patches or firmware it means you would need to get support contract
3)IMHO, if your production system is SPARC then your test/dev should also be SPARC
regards

You can obtain a license as part of a Oracle Hardware or Oracle Solaris Premier Subscription for Non-Oracle Hardware purchase. Please work with your Oracle Sun Systems Sales Representative.

Sun x86 servers
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/index.html

OTN License and download
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/downloads/index.html

Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/operating-systems/index.html

In my opinion Oracle is on a good way to banish the loyal Solaris x86 customers like us, which have big server like Sun Fire X4600 M2. As we are a public company, we need to do public tenders for machine, so we get what we get, maybe Sun-Oracle, maybe HP, whoever make the better deal.

So what are the prices for running Solaris x86

e.g: HP 970 8 Sockel, 8 Cores vgl. https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=ostore:2:0::NO:RP,2:PROD_HIER_ID:6916016290451192110906

Native Solaris 10 x86: 8 x 1584 = 12672 € / year
Vmware ESX mit Solaris 10: das gleiche = 12672 € / year

Oracle still did not recognise "soft partitioning" technologies such as VMWare and Microsoft Virtual Server when licensing by processor/CPU. Instead you must licence by the physical processor in the underlying hardware. (see http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf) "hardware partitioning" technologies are recognised, but Oracle places some caveats on this also.

Oracle VM with Solaris 10: (hard partitioning) ... grey area

but !

Oracle Linux Premier Support = 1.812 €/ year ... per system, number of cpus is not counting (factor 10)
Oracle Linux Network Support = 93.96 € / year ... per system, number of cpus is not counting (factor 120, if you don't want support on a call basis, just the software & patches).

So we have started to think about to get rid of Solaris, where we can easily, because this new license feed for solaris are absurd.

And no, the sales representative are clueless, whoever I call, can not give me clear saying e.g about running Solaris on Oracle VM, are e.g. Fujtsu maschines like M4000 out of scope or not.

Quite fed up with this topic ...

kind regards, thomas