Patches are free for Sol x86 if you use Sun / Oracle hardware, no license cost. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Lee, Jarrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jarrett.Lee@cedarcrestone.com" target="_blank">Jarrett.Lee@cedarcrestone.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">"We pay less than $200 per Dell for annual hardware maintenance. Oracle is $1000 per server for hardware maintenance. We pay $60/year for Redhat update access (for University). Same update access plus support from Oracle is another $1000/year. There is no option for only software updates with Oracle."<br>
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</div>Not entirely true: <a href="https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=dstore:product:0::NO:RP,6:P6_LPI:4510275205461805728469" target="_blank">https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=dstore:product:0::NO:RP,6:P6_LPI:4510275205461805728469</a><br>
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There's your $120/system, updates only, option. I can't say for certain what we pay for OEL, but it's not $1000/year<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Jarrett<br>
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Jarrett Lee<br>
CedarCrestone, Inc.<br>
UNIX Administrator, Server Technologies<br>
Managed Services<br>
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