Difference between Workstation and Server? (fwd)

2007-12-25 11:27:00

My thanks to everyone who replied to my question (if I missed your

name I am sorry)

Stephen Harris

Casper Dik

Mark Sherman

Leif Ericksen

James Musso

SALLEA

Ray Trzaska

ian

Matthew Stier

Brion Leary

Dwight Peters

Marco Greene

Fred Crowner

Murat Balkas

Jay Morgan

The general opinion was that there is no difference in the OS between the

Workstation and the Server versions of Solaris, but there are licensing

differences. Several people replied that a machine is considered a server

if it exports more filesystems than it imports. One person replied that

if more than a single concurrent user is logged onto the machine it is

considered a server. Still another person responded saying it really

doesn't matter as long as all of the machines being served are suns (or at

least running a licensed copy of Solaris).

The Server version also comes with many extras including DiskSuite,

Solstice BackUp, NFSClient, etc.... (along with a license to use them I

think).

Here is my original post.

Hi all,

I have never understood Sun's definition of Workstation vs.

Server. There seems to be two versions of Solaris (Workstation

and Server) which cost very different prices for subscription

services. Is there actually any difference in the software or

is this a licensing thing? We have a Sun workstation on everyone's

desk (we don't use any xterms or any non-sun equipment), but

some machines are more powerful than others and so sometimes

there will be serveral users logged in to them running jobs.

Does this mean that this machine is acting as a server?

Does anyone know what the licensing agreement is with a new

Sun workstation? I thought that you basically had the right

to run the lastest version of Solaris on a new workstation from

Sun (i.e. you only needed to buy the media). Is this the workstation

or the Server version?

Thanks for your help!!

Scott

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