On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Jim Walker <James.Walker at sun.com> wrote: > > John Sonnenschein wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Jim Walker <James.Walker at sun.com> > wrote: > >> Michal Bielicki wrote: > >> > >>> Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > >> >> > >> >> How do you define success? > >> >> > >> > Start with acceptance and userbase ? My 9 year old knows what Ubuntu > is, > >> > my wife and grandma too. Ever tried to ask a kid what OpenSolaris is ? > >> > > >> > >> +1 > >> > >> That is an excellent definition of success. > >> Once the 9 year olds of the world include > >> OpenSolaris in their vocabulary we know > >> we are successful. > >> > > > > I dunno, I should hope that attracting the best and brightest > > developers to the project should be a better metric for success than > > just sheer number of users. In this way I consider OpenBSD to be quite > > successful. It may not be used as much as other open-source operating > > systems, but they have a standard of quality and a culture of > > engineering excellence above and beyond the more popular OS's. > > Sorry. As OpenSolaris Test Lead for Sun, I assume excellent engineering > and product quality is the number one goal and sometimes forget to > explicitly state that. In addition, great works that are widely used > and appreciated can be ONE good objective measure of success and to > some extent quality. >
I just thought it was important to note, because from some discussions some seem okay with compromising on the structures in place that keep the engineering quality up in order to attract new users. -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
