> 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.
Thank God that I'm wrong again. :-) I'll be in Toronto next week and I'll go into the hallways at UofT and with a clipboard in hand and my OpenSolaris T-shirt I'll go ask students what they think. I'll go do my own research and see what I find. Dennis
