On 12/19/05, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 00:09 +0100, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > On 12/18/05, Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:02, Gary Gendel wrote:
> > > > Anyway, Linus has just opened another can of worms that directly
> > > > effects OpenSolaris and JDS.
> > >
> > > I really don't see how this effects JDS or OpenSolaris. It just one
> > > guy's opinion not some edict from above.
> > Sun's choice of only shipping Gnome has serious impact for the
> > (Open)Solaris acceptance.
>
> We don't just ship GNOME though - KDE is available on the CCD right?
> It's just not supported.
>
> [snip stuff about Germany that I don't really know enough about]
Similar issues already exist in Spain and France will follow soon.
> > Other european contries also KDE as primiary desktop and I don't see
> > how Solaris can get a better acceptance as long KDE is not supported.
>
> Given the sheer amount of resources that we've already thrown into
> GNOME, I feel that it would be almost impossible to throw equal
> resources into KDE as well. Having 2 desktops really doesn't make any
> sense from a business point of view
Having two desktops does not make sense for the customers - and KDE is
the primary government desktop here. Support for KDE will be a
requirement for further contracts as far as I can see from my POV. The
European governments are looking into further ways to save costs and
having the burden of a KDE desktop which is not supported will not
generate bonus points when Sun tries to compete with other open source
solutions here. Sun Germany will likely hit tendering procedures where
KDE is a REQUIREMENT very soon and IMO there needs to be a solution
for this problem ASAP as it will affect the sales on the whole
European continent.
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