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Tuesday July 22, 2008
Clarifying Sun Studio Patch Policy: Patches continue to be free
Many of our users apparently do not download the latest Sun Studio patches because they do not know
about a SunSolve policy change over the past years. Please note that Sun Studio
patches continue to be free; the only change is that
users need to get a sunsolve online account (which is free) in order to download it.
To drive this point home, our support team has added the following text
to all of our patch downloading pages
:
Sunsolve is a proprietary online database of software patches, patch
information, tools, technical articles and troubleshooting documents.
Access to SunSolve requires you to have a Sun Online Account and
accept the updated License Agreement. Getting new account at sunsolve
is free and does not require a service contract at https://reg.sun.com/register?program=ssu&goto=http://sunsolve.sun.com.
If you have an existing SunSolve Sun Online Account, and you have not
already accepted the new Software License Agreement, the next time you
login and access SunSolve Online, you will be prompted to accept the
new Software License Agreement. This is stored on a cookie on your
system. If you clear the cookie you will be asked to re-accept this
license agreement.
All the pages are now live with this updated wording clarifying the
policy:
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/ss12_patches.jsp
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/ss11_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/ss10_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/ss9_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/ss8_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/s1s8cc_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/s1s7ee_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/s1s7cc_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/fd6u2_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/fd6u1_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/fd6_patches.html
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/sw5_patches.html
Posted by tatkar
( Jul 22 2008, 04:07:41 PM PDT )
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Perhaps, Sun Studio 12 should be able to update itself or at least ask the user that updates are available and be able to easily download them.
Posted by Mke Lee on July 25, 2008 at 01:02 PM PDT #
Indeed. This is a FAQ. We are working on getting such a solution in place.
I appreciate your feedback; I'll take it back to the team.
Posted by Vijay Tatkar on July 27, 2008 at 10:30 PM PDT #