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In article <839318196snz@addhat.demon>,
	graham dresch <graham@addhat.demon> writes:
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>The only thing i haven't seen here is a price for Solaris x86.

It doesn't have a simple answer.
Depends who you work for, when you buy, and probably where you buy.

Price for Desktop edition varies from US$ 99 through to somewhere
in the UKP 300 - 400 area.

The price for all the development tools is a few grand I think,
although the C compiler by itself is a lot less (someone in this
thread mentioned just over UKP 600).

However, almost no one pays this. Each year when the new version
of Solaris comes out, Sun do a devpack consisting of the Desktop
operating system, Software Developer's Kit, C, C++, debugger (X
and character based), X application builder, X based source
management tools, etc. This is normally just a little more than
the Desktop operating system itself. The offer has expired this
year, but you might still find stocks in the distribution channels.

If you're in an education establishment, the Desktop OS is
available for $99 (probably around UKP 70?), and the development
tools are also available cheaply (I think the same price, but
could be wrong here).

Another option is to buy a copy of 2.4 (which would be cheap
from distributors who still have it) and upgrade it to 2.5.

I attended a Sun Java course a few months ago, and we were all
given a copy of Solaris x86 Desktop, together with Solaris
Internet Gateway, and Sun's Java Workshop (EA, with full release
to follow). Oh, and a Java T-shirt, Java porcelain coffee cup,
Duke stickers, Hot Java memo pad, Duke tie pin, etc...
A Java carrier bag to put it all in would have been really useful :-)

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