On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:48 am, John Martinez wrote: > On May 31, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > >> ...Even if they could I doubt such customers would go for it as > >> Linux is just more hip and decision makers for sure don't get > >> grilled for picking it. Maybe those people would even consider > >> OpenSolaris "not ready for business". > > > > Most of this paragraph was building up to a valid point, but the > > ending kind of ruined it for me :) You talk about business needs, > > but suddenly all that doesn't matter since Linux is hipper anyway. > > Is that what decision makers are paid for these days? And I've > > heard the "you can't go wrong with IBM" mantra, but it's the first > > time I hear of Linux as a safe bet. Not possessing any real data I > > can't disagree here, but it sounds a bit depressing. > > He's pointing out how the rest of the universe outside of Sun sees > Linux. I can't say I disagree with him on his point. Not that *I > personally* see Linux as a safe bet, but that decision makers > definitely do. The tech press (which lots of CIOs read) portrays > Linux in a good light to the IT world, that's for sure.
I completely agree. Linux is considered a safe bet by many, since it is talked about and the momentum of it continues to snowball. The real challenge for Solaris/OpenSolaris is wether it can overcome being shadow'd by this snowball effect of a less product. I won't say a bad product, I won't say inferior, just less of a product in the sense of the function and feature that it offers. Solaris is less in some ways also. For me to say that Solaris/OpenSolaris is more of a product might have little impact, I also had a BETAMAX Pro deck in my garage, and a host of OS/2 manuals alongside...more doesn't always win, unfortunately. With that said, Solaris is now open with OpenSolaris. Our community is allowed to innovate on it now, and the community can work with Sun. This was a huge step, IMO. Many of the bean counters and IT folks are either 1) sticking with Solaris and moving to commodity hardware, or 2) in some cases replacing Linux that they had previously selected and had problems with. This is afterall the first time that Sun is actually behind and promoting Solaris on x86/x64 systems, and the x64 product is ahead of any other 64-bit OS in it's category. Sun has the software, Sun has the hardware to back it up with systems coming out. If Sun can just market the product correctly, they have a winner. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
