James Mansion wrote: > Surely, having a kernel developer community is the least of Sun's > actual problems. > Sun has developers and having most development done in the context of > a funded and > managed environment is very valuable. What is needed most of all is a > *user* community > that extends beyond those of us who work in large corporates who have > medium and > large Sun servers.
I agree that a user community is critical, but we need to quantify the term "users" a bit. We are not going to be Windows or Mac any time soon in terms of usability and/or market share for general users. We are trying to first engage technical users or power users or whatever the correct term is. Developer-users? Developers are still the core, but we are expanding the range of developers from kernel upwards. All I meant was that we were a source community before, and that made it harder for users to get involved. > From that perspective, having a community that contributes to an > involving user-land > has to be the primary focus, and I suspect that the decisions to call > this 'OpenSolaris' > and to make it much more receptive to people familiar with packaging > for Linux > is right on the money. I think people like what Indiana is and will bring to the community ... once we get around the naming issue. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
