Sun Studio 11, less expensive than ever!
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Tuesday November 15, 2005

Sun Studio 11, less expensive than ever!

Now you don't have any excuses. Sun Studio 11 with all the tools you need is a free download. No trial license, no strings attached. (Well you have to register at sun.com to download, but that doesn't bring you any spam.) Now when people post problems in forums like "Workshop 6.1 doesn't work right on Solaris 10" I can just say: "Download the latest tools and try again".

Of course, I'm not a one-man support group. If you want to be able to request patches, and have someone file bugs for you, you need to buy a support contract. I suspect that sooner or later we'll need to hook up our bug system to the web, but it hasn't happened yet.

Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Nov 15 2005, 01:19:36 PM PST ) - Permalink - - Sun Studio

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