[pca] question to folks running Oracle Solaris Studio 12 or 12.3

[Dennis Clarke]

On 13/02/14 04:10 PM, Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia) wrote:
> Yes (compile work)   Yes (use Studio 12.3)
> No (pay for Studio support)   Reason -- license says that we don't have to pay if we don't want support. I support it myself, for my own use.
>
> When I do a build, I always update and patch my tools, such as Studio 12.3, before I compile for each release.
> I have not yet installed the patches below because we have not had a build/release since the patches came out.
> When we build, I do use the optimizations in the compiler specific to the platform we are deploying on. These are not all available w/ GCC.
>
> I just tried to download 148917-07.zip which is in your list below. It worked for me, but I'm not paying any extra for Oracle Solaris Studio support.
> Perhaps its included in something else I'm paying for? I'm not sure.  Are you saying you can't download it?
>

I have had a support contract for years and I can tell you that the
compiler patches are not free. I tried to call Oracle about this
and they bounced me around for months ( yes months ) before handing
me over to a third party that told me the Oracle Studio tools were
a free download and thus there are no patches.

I kid you not. I have all the emails.

So I went full circle until I was shown this :

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/development-tools/index.html

click on Oracle Solaris Development Tools Support 
<https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=dstore:product:4426670536659428::NO:RP,6:P6_LPI,P6_PPI:14755510228390585509244,> 
and you see a nice price there.

So it looks to be a pay more money to get support but no one seems to know
anything about the patches to update the Studio Compiler.

Really frustrating.

Dennis *

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