Solaris Licensing
Sun offers Solaris licenses
for free to educational institutions. The
implications for UIUC Solaris users depend on the
platform on which you're running Solaris.
Point of Contact
For Solaris support information, please contact us at cites-wsg-sw@uiuc.edu.
Software Cost
The following information applies to Sun workstations
owned by UIUC. ScholarPAC software is also available for
UIUC faculty, staff, and students who purchase Suns for
personal use.
Some departments that have a large number of Suns purchase
blanket software licensing from CITES. A person belonging
to one of these Sun sites
would obtain software from the site contact and not pay
the $150 annual fee mentioned below.
When you buy a Sun workstation, it includes a license
for the operating system and windowing software, but no
compilers or related tools. An annual fee of $150 per
workstation entitles you to any UIUC-licensed Sun
software, which includes:
- C
- C++
- Fortran 77
- Fortran 90
- Fortran 95
- Pascal
- StarOffice
- Integrated Development Environment: includes
a debugger, browser, incremental linker, and other
programming tools
- Performance Library: includes optimized and
parallelized versions of the LAPACK, BLAS,
FFTPACK, and VFFTPACK numercial libraries
- Visual: an interactive tool for building GUIs
- TeamWare: source management software, including
tools for configuring, building, merging,
versioning, and freeze pointing
- LockLint, LoopTool: tools for
parallelizing applications
- Sun Ray Server: software to provide central
services and desktop management for Sun Ray
appliances
- AnswerBook: online library of Sun manuals
- Upgrades for the operating system
and all the software listed above
Java software development tools (JavaWorkshop, JavaStudio,
Java WebServer, JavaPureCheck, JavaStar, JavaSpec, and
JavaScope) can be downloaded directly from a
Sun website
and is free to educational institutions for research and
teaching purposes.
Distribution
Sun software is distributed on CD from the Point of
Contact. If you do not have a CD-ROM drive on your
workstation, CITES can loan you one that will work on
any Sun except the Ultra5 and Ultra10.
Considerations
If you do not want to install Sun's online set of
manuals (AnswerBook), you can access a copy that
resides on a CITES server.
To use Sun's compilers, you must copy a file containing
the campus license codes to your machine; this file is
available from the Point of Contact. This file authorizes
you for an unlimited number of simultaneous users, and
the license codes never expire. Also note that you
do not have to install and run the license manager
software on your machine to use the Sun compilers.
Links to Other Sun Info
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