On 8/1/07, Marc Hamilton <Marc.Hamilton at sun.com> wrote: > As to the "flood of S10-related support questions", it isn't always clear > to me when a question is Solaris 10 related and when it is related to an > OpenSolaris binary distribution. I think Sun and the OpenSolaris.orgcommunity > have done a poor job in differentiating the "brand" of their > corresponding binary distributions. In addition, while there are several > distributions based on OpenSolaris today, there is no commercial support > available for any of these distributions that I am aware of, other than very > limited "developer support" for SXDE. I'll be very transparent and say that > Sun is preparing to offer commercial support for the OpenSolaris binary > distribution that Project Indiana is creating. That doesn't mean we are > trying to turn Project Indiana into a "Sun Product", it simply means we > believe that it will result in an OpenSolaris binary distribution that many > people will be interesting in purchasing support for. That support will be > more than today's limited "developer" support but will have different SLAs. > Think Solaris 10 support = Long Term Support and OpenSolaris support = > supported for limited time period. >
I really like this idea... (Expand the developer support for SXDE... It is on a quarterly release cycle, and represents a fairly timely view into the state of Solaris.next) There has been a lot of internal discussion as to if we should offer > commercial support for the Project Indiana OpenSolaris binary distribution > or if we should make our own Sun distribution based on the Project Indiana > source code, ala SXDE or SXCE, and only support "our" distribution. That > makes absolutely no sense to me. The only thing that would allow Sun to do > is name the distribution, because I think everyone would agree that using > "the Project Indiana OpenSolaris binary distribution" is not a good name for > an OS. So you will see the Project Indiana team start to work with the > OpenSolaris community over the coming weeks on naming. There is one obvious > name that comes to mind, and that is just to call it OpenSolaris. However, I > recognize that the "obviousness" may be a very Sun centric one, so I will > repeat, Sun will NOT single-handedly use our trademark ownership to name a > community product without the support of the community. > Talking about it now is ok. I, however, can't really commit to any naming schemes until I am running Indiana on my laptop. (The closer it is to SXCE/SXDE, the more likely I am do go with a name that includes OpenSolaris/Solaris. Maybe "OpenSolaris Desktop" or "Solaris Desktop". -brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20070801/cdda9b90/attachment.html>
