> > At least someone agrees with me about it being an > > issue... The > > current spin is targeted at single point "PC" > > installations, no > > question about it, but it's incomplete unless you > > want to break laws, > > some people would gladly do this, but hopefully > their > > employer is more > > forgiving than the patent holders. > > > > James > > Actually the last thing you want your employees to do > is to play MPEG files--even legally. Apart from the > fact that it is almost never a part of the job, > invitation for serious security breaches is the > paramount concern. Thus, whatever is supposed to be > missing from Solaris does not affect it to be a good > candidate for business desktops. Indeed, this may > turn out to be an advantage. >
At least in my experience, video streaming has been already an infrastructure to deliver company message and career training. No matter it leverages .wmv, flash, or almost obsoleted realplayer format. To have business desktop environment but without multimedia streaming support is highly unlikely, especially for large organization. > When I was at Exxon, every time anyone got a new PC, > we always gutted the system (reformatted the disc) > and installed our own version of Windows. Small > businesses, however, cannot afford to do that, and we > have to suffer the dire consequences of running > Windows. Again, that's almost unthinkable in today's large organization. To have a non-standard OS connected to corporate network? must be kidding me. It's ok to have OS-of-your-pick in lab, but that's against company policy to use them in production environment. Almost all large organizations I've been at (a network equipment maker in San Jose, a failing handset company based in Schaumburg, a laptop/printer/blade server maker in Cupertino) allow only machines with IT sanctioned OS with auditing software installed. And IT sanctioned OS reads "Windows" these days. policy might be a bit more lax in engineering function, but not much. I've already given up fighting and learn to live with Windows at work. About two years ago, mentioning linux is ok, mentioning Solaris is to label yourself as old-timer/joke. I don't know now, 'cause I haven't say the word to coworkers these days. > > What we really need, I believe, is a bunch of > entrepreneurs who will/can work with Sun to sell > Solaris services to small business owners. I think > Sun has done an unbelievable job of porting this holy > grail of all operating systems to an almost > ubiquitary level. It can be very interesting to see > what may happen next. Usually, entrepreneurs play with novel breakthrough, businessmen work with selling things. Businessmen see money before act. No money to be made by fight ing Windows with a weak contender, pitching Mac against Windows is not that economically attractive, and osol? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
