On Mon 07 Nov 2005 at 11:57AM, Adam Leventhal wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I think the type of discussion and interest around BrandX is likely to
> be orthogonal to that of Zones. Without completely spoiling the
> surprise, BrandX hopes to publish interfaces where Zones could take on
> personalities for RedHat, FreeBSD, AIX, Mac OS X or whatever. I imagine
> much of the discussion may focus on the specifics of using those
> interfaces and differences between the Zone personality and the real
> deal. Those discussions seem very much distinct from the Zones community.
Ok. I wasn't aware that BrandX was a feature name. Thanks for
clarifying that. I had seem some discussions which led me to be
confused on that point-- and that the name would be much more closely
associated with zones. I was concerned that people would face a choice
between "branded zones" and "zones" and then would be all confused. We
can followup off alias about whatever marketing is doing with naming.
As for the degree of overlap or not-- What's the point of BrandX? Is it
migration from other platforms, server consolidation, application
capture? I guess it is some of each. To the degree that it is
reinforcing that Zones is an important and useful consolidation
facility, it has overlap.
It sounds like no one agrees with me, so I'm willing to withdraw my
objection. I would however request that the BrandX community web site
owners work with their Zones counterparts to set up appropriate cross
links.
> Further, having branded-zones-discuss really obscures what I think will
> be a hot community and one in which we've already seen tremendous interest.
I'll ignore the implied not-hotness of the Zones community :) I wasn't
trying to mandate the name branded-zones-discuss; I was just trying to
point out that we have the technology to associate multiple mailing
lists under one community. Thanks,
-dp
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