Dennis Clarke writes: > But now you go walk into the compsci areas of almost any university today > and ask any one about Solaris or OpenSolaris and they will most likely look > at you like you are a fish.
For what it's worth (and it might not be much ;-}), this isn't true from my experience. I've been to CMU in Pittsburgh a couple of times to do recruiting for Sun. Not only do students there know who Sun is, but they know about OpenSolaris, they line up to talk to me, and a few have even installed Solaris Express and have rave things to say about ZFS and dtrace. And unlike the other companies there, all I had to say was "visit opensolaris.org to see what we're doing;" I didn't have to explain what was available. The only thing that seems to come close in general interest is Java. Of all the things Sun does to market itself, I think opensolaris.org is hands-down the best asset. I agree with you that this is a crowd we need to win over, but (much unlike the way things have been since about the early 90s) I think we're further along that path than you might be expecting. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
