Solaris Licensing on x86

We are currently in the process of preparing a proposal to one of our customers.
Our customers environment is based on Solaris (SPARC) and we hope to replicate some of that environment in our location on Solaris ( x86) and use it for development and performance testing.
My question is does the OTN license cover the Solaris licenses or do we need to purchase additional licenses?

In my opinion Oracle is on a good way to banish the loyal Solaris x86 customers like us, which have big server like Sun Fire X4600 M2. As we are a public company, we need to do public tenders for machine, so we get what we get, maybe Sun-Oracle, maybe HP, whoever make the better deal.
So what are the prices for running Solaris x86
e.g: HP 970 8 Sockel, 8 Cores vgl. https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=ostore:2:0::NO:RP,2:PROD_HIER_ID:6916016290451192110906
Native Solaris 10 x86: 8 x 1584 = 12672 € / year
Vmware ESX mit Solaris 10: das gleiche = 12672 € / year
Oracle still did not recognise "soft partitioning" technologies such as VMWare and Microsoft Virtual Server when licensing by processor/CPU. Instead you must licence by the physical processor in the underlying hardware. (see http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf) "hardware partitioning" technologies are recognised, but Oracle places some caveats on this also.
Oracle VM with Solaris 10: (hard partitioning) ... grey area
but !
Oracle Linux Premier Support = 1.812 €/ year ... per system, number of cpus is not counting (factor 10)
Oracle Linux Network Support = 93.96 € / year ... per system, number of cpus is not counting (factor 120, if you don't want support on a call basis, just the software & patches).
So we have started to think about to get rid of Solaris, where we can easily, because this new license feed for solaris are absurd.
And no, the sales representative are clueless, whoever I call, can not give me clear saying e.g about running Solaris on Oracle VM, are e.g. Fujtsu maschines like M4000 out of scope or not.
Quite fed up with this topic ...
kind regards, thomas

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