Hi to all my friends, I'm really trying not to write emails which contains my non mature thoughts. This email could be a little longer than usual email, but I will try to be precise end exact.
My basic thoughts was about how to get bigger market share in huge market of PCs/laptops. Only solution I could see to be there is to have more high quality ported applications which in turn will bring us more users. More users will, in turn attract more companies to port their applications to OpenSolaris. Lets call it positive feedback. If we do not achieve it, then nobody would like to buy OpenSolaris PS/laptop just for running applications, which in turn nobody would like to port their application to OpenSolaris, which again in turn will lower OpenSolaris users, etc. Lets call it negative feedback. As far as I could see we are now in state of negative feedback, and the main problem could be formulated as - how to make transition from negative feedback to positive feedback. During last few months I put on paper various ideas, and searched through the net to see if someone already implemented any of them and what amount of success they achieved. One of ideas was to start VirtualBox and inside start Windows OS, and then run desired application. All is legal but I saw so much overhead in this idea. Next idea was that inside VirtualBox we start Mac OS X and then run our favorite application. That was better idea regarding overhead and speed but also it had two negative side effects - it is not possible to do it legally and we still have to run another OS inside OpenSolaris. Then I got third idea which is actually my proposal. In past few weeks we could saw announcement from company called Bordeaux Group who 'ported' some applications from Adobe and Microsoft to OpenSolaris via WINE. It was great since we do not have to start guest OS and in turn we have much lower overhead and faster execution. My proposal relies on this idea. Let we develop virtualisation layer for Mac OS X versions of applications (because they are faster) and then do such kind of 'porting'. This way we would have faster execution (Mac's applications are more optimized), we do not need guest OS (avoid legal issues), and we would have lower overhead. If we succeed to develop such layer which adds max. 10% overhead comparing when same applications runs on its native OS (Mac) without any virtualisation, then it could attract more people to use OpenSolaris. Once when we started to increase our user base significantly, then companies who produce application software will start to port their applications to OpenSolaris and we will have OpenSolaris native applications with zero overhead. This will, in turn, attract more users, which will in turn, attract more application vendors to port their software portfolio to OpenSolaris. This way, we could do transition from negative feedback to positive feedback and take market segment which currently belongs more than 90% to Microsoft. That is all what I wanted to say. I hope it'll help to OpenSolaris. Uros Nedic Belgrade, Serbia _________________________________________________________________ Drag n? drop?Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live? Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx
