Felix Schulte wrote:
Will Fujitsu join the OpenSolaris project some day?
This is an interesting point in how it is phrased, and it comes up occasionally. For me, anyway.
Fujitsu engineers are certainly welcome to join, as is anyone from Sun's partners, ISVs, customers, etc. When we ran the pilot program, we tapped many sources for people to get going -- but we were looking for individuals to build a community, not specifically big companies Sun had relationships with. Sure, some of those guys were invited and some came along (and are coming along now). But we wanted to engage the individual developers within those companies (and elsewhere) who were interested in future community co-involvement. Many were, many were not. We did this intentionally so that the project would be characterized as a developer program that would grow into a community of equals, not a Sun ISV/partner/customer program. It may not seem like a big distinction, but from where I sit here at Sun it's actually a pretty significant difference.
Thanks for bringing it up. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
