Sun Studio 11 Patches/Updates?

Jeff Wieland

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Dec 5, 2005, 11:26:58 AM12/5/05

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Am I right in thinking that Sun will now be charging $864 for patches
and updates for Sun Studio 11? I paid $100 for Forte 6 Update 2 with
Educational pricing back in Feb. 2002 -- maybe I'll just stay with the
older software for a while.
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Jeff Wieland

Thomas Maier-Komor

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Dec 5, 2005, 11:31:32 AM12/5/05

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no you are wrong. You are getting Sun Studio 11 for free. The price
for support is $864. The patches are free, too. So you will only
need to pay support if you are having problems with Sun Studio
and need support from Sun. Sun Studio 11 even checks for patches
itself...

Tom

John D Groenveld

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Dec 13, 2005, 7:48:42 PM12/13/05

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In article <dn1q14$7db$1...@wsc10.lrz-muenchen.de>,

Thomas Maier-Komor <maie...@lpr.e-technik.no-spam.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>no you are wrong. You are getting Sun Studio 11 for free. The price
>for support is $864. The patches are free, too. So you will only

There are no Studio 11 patches yet AFAICT from patchdiag.xref
and I've not seen any statements that the new Sun Update Connection
policy for Solaris 10 patches doesn't apply to all new products.

>need to pay support if you are having problems with Sun Studio
>and need support from Sun. Sun Studio 11 even checks for patches
>itself...

Does the Studio 11 UI automatically download those patches?

John
groe...@acm.org

Mats Larsson

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Dec 14, 2005, 6:03:30 AM12/14/05

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On 2005-12-05 17:31, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:

> and need support from Sun. Sun Studio 11 even checks for patches
> itself...

How?

Paul Floyd

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Dec 14, 2005, 4:36:39 PM12/14/05

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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:48:42 +0000 (UTC), John D Groenveld
<groe...@cse.psu.edu> wrote:

...

> Does the Studio 11 UI automatically download those patches?

No, I think it just downloads/generates an HTML file with a list of
available patches, and launches your browser to load that file. Then, I
imagine, you can click on the links to download the patches.

A bientot
Paul
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Thomas Maier-Komor

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Dec 15, 2005, 4:47:06 AM12/15/05

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in fact I don't really know, too. I just read it in the release notes,
and once when I started "analyzer" it said something about checking
for patches and updating something. It could have been a Solaris
specific patch.

On Studio's patch website there are currently only patches concerning
the different Solaris releases (look here:
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/patches/ss11_patches.html).
I don't know really what was going on. But up to now I didn't have
any problem with Studio 11 as opposed to 10, which made a lot of
trouble for me...

Tom

John D Groenveld

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Dec 15, 2005, 2:57:21 PM12/15/05

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In article <slrndq14l...@bisanne.netpratique.fr>,

Paul Floyd <ro...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>No, I think it just downloads/generates an HTML file with a list of
>available patches, and launches your browser to load that file. Then, I
>imagine, you can click on the links to download the patches.

Any word whether Studio 12 and Sun's other multi-OS software products
will include support for Sun Update Connection?

John
groe...@acm.org