Hi,
I don't play in OpenSolaris. I'm not a developer any more. I work for
Sun and I love Solaris and have lived and breathed and eaten and dreamt
it for almost 16 years. I cannot tell you how much I and all of Sun
appreciate your efforts and blood in the trenches. You are our bretheren.
That will never change, but if Solaris is to live, really live, and not
be trampled on and smothered by other more prevalent OSes, then we have
to give it away, and encourage people to experiment, and push the
boundaries, and expand it, and write apps for it and play. That way,
they get to find out what we already know. It's the best OS on the planet.
We [Sun] will still be here creating an advanced, strong, reliable,
powerful distribution that developers and ISVs and companies the world
over can use, especially in production, and trust. We will provide
world-class service and support and we will do our best to keep
innovating our brains out; but for the OS to grow and reach out to
people who might otherwise have never given us a thought, we need to
open our horizons and embrace the global community.
I don't play in OpenSolaris because I'm not a developer anymore, but I
sure envy the folks that do, and I am thrilled that so many of us who
'were there then' are out there playing now, too. It makes us that much
stronger.
Thanks,
-chris
UNIX admin wrote:
If you maintain this sort of mentality, then
OpenSolaris will never be a
separate entity. This is exactly the sort of thought
we need to get
away from.
BTW Steve, as a person to person, this little snippet really got to me.
For 15 years I've lived on Sun and Solaris, "ate, breathed, dreamt and drank
it", one might put it so, and everything was OK.
I bled in the trenches between the big iron E10Ks and small U5s running Solaris
day and night, and we were Sun's community -- Solaris community.
Now all of a sudden associating Solaris -- most notably OpenSolaris -- is not
what we want, now it's bad, in the way, out of favor, not in fashion, and all
because we are trying to get more visibility and lure the Linux crowd over to
develop software on and for Solaris.
That's great, I'm all for it, but what's with those of us that still remember what Solaris *was*
and what OpenSolaris *is* today? I guess we're not "fashionable" any more. I mean,
Solaris vs. OpenSolaris is starting to sound like a crusade. Now the fashion has changed, so some
things are on the "forbidden list". Great.
Well, that really got to me. Thanks Steve.
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