Are Solaris Patches ONLY available for a fee?

I have tried repeatedly to get Patch Manager for Solaris 9, which we're running on a brand new V240. The application we purchased it for is not yet certified to be binary compatible with SOL 10, so we were forced to go back to SOL9.

SunSolve makes PatchManager and PatchPro available for free download to Solaris 8 users. Update Connection is available to Solaris 10 users. Solaris 9 users seem to be in a position to pay for a service plan to get updates.

We purcased 2 Sun Servers at the same time. The x86 server is running Linux, which we have no trouble getting free updates for, particularly security updates.

I'm thinking that maybe I need to switch our Sun SPARC server to OpenSolaris to get the same kind of benefits we are used to with Linux.

Comments, suggestions, anyone?

Thanks!

John

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HiYou may download Patchmanager for Solaris 9 here : http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=40c8c2adonce logging into Sunsolve.Then Security and Recommended patch updates are free. Other specific patches are per contract fee based.

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After being told by many people in these forums that I could get the PatchManager and patches here for free, and going thru much frustration trying, I called the school's local Sun dealer.

The Sun dealer told me that since Sun released Solaris for FREE download, Sun is requiring a support contract to get updates and patches. Basically, the support contracts pay for the "FREE" O/S.

The Sun web pages kept insisting I have a support contract, so what the Sun dealer told me concurs with what I ran into on here.

Thanks for trying to help. I do appreciate it.

John

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Hi.All Solaris 8 and 9 patches are still available for free, both from SunSolve (with a free sun.com login), and through PatchManager.Solaris 10 security updates are also free through SunSolve and Sun Update Connection, again just with a free sun.com login.Mod.

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