Solaris

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 information

• CITES WSG Sun Security page
• Free Solaris Training
• Sun's home page: http://www.sun.com
• Sun Documentation: http://www.sun.com/documentation/
• Public domain software for Solaris: http://sunfreeware.com/index.html
• StarOffice Information: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/products_solutions/software/desktop_applications.html
• Java home page: http://www.javasoft.com/