In my standard Solaris demo desktop (actually it’s a downtothearth HP ze2000e Turion64 notebook), I have put together a “Jack” (Japanese/American/Chinese/Korean) system. The trick is to have OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, StarOffice8, and StarSuite8 on the same machine. As I believe everyone here knows, these three are essentially identical programs but each is running according to its own “.” config file (& thus allowing them to run under respective locales). Typically, I will have OOo running in Chinese locale, StarOffice in English, and StarSuite in Japanese. The three programs can be resized and running simultaneously on the same screen. I am very proud of this setup, although, in actuality, no one has given it a damn (as far as I can tell anyway—changing operating system is not something you world expect anyone to take lightly, even for the geekiest of the geeks).
However, a few weeks ago, I was helping one of our local politicians in hosting a delegation from Dalian (often dubbed to become “the Bangalore of China”, & we are very interested in trying to add Dalian as one of our sister cities). I happened to bring my Solaris SX44 notebook with me, so I took this opp to do an aforementioned-Jack demonstration. The delegation members seemed to be genuinely impressed. But interestingly, the big bosses seemed to be more interested in my background wallpaper, which happened to a BlackBox picture that I downloaded from one of Sun’s blog sites. I remember making a remark that you can run the same operating system on a cheap notebook as well as this world top-500 super-computer which can be built and delivered “yesterday”. Their enthusiasm actually resonated an interest in our own people, something I had never been able to do previously. As a side thought, I know Sun held or sponsored a significant number of Solaris presentations in China. Perhaps Sun should make it mandatory to require its own speakers to similarly show a picture of BlackBox near the end. This may or may not help Sun, but from my own experience, it will definitely make the presentations less boring and sticking better in the memory. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
