> Anyway, that is my story. I am open to further > discussion as I have a lot of field experience with > this not only from knowing what the masses of office > users want/desire but also from a business > perspective of making decisions based on the fine > line of my ideas of the bests (Postifix on Solaris > kills Exchange for basic email needs, BeOS was the > best desktop OS ever, etc) with vs what the people > who write my checks are brainwashed by > media/marketing into believing are best.
Very interesting post with lots of insights; I've very much enjoyed reading it, and I'm thankful for you sharing your experiences. It might interest you to know that I'm currently, in my spare time, working on getting Solaris to the point of doing just that -- an out-of-the-box, deployable within *seconds* collaboration suite based on a light, standardized Solaris environment. What I believe makes my "basement project" interesting, is that I'm building this thing using the know-how, technology and methodologies used by the biggest enterprises in the world (since I come from that background) to reach high availability, redundancy at perhaps 100th or 1000th of the cost. It wouldn't be fair not to mention that I'm able to do this in large part because Sun has made their enterprise software available gratis. I can now design (ca. $1800 USD) maxed-out Opteron servers and have them boot over the network and configure themselves automatically without human interaction, and I'm pretty well along. Adding out-of-the-box or on-demand services like mail, DNS, web, collaboration suite (as an Exchange alternative) has become a matter of engineering, documenting and designing Solaris packages such that the software automagically just works after installation, and does not require any further configuration. As someone who has started my own *tiny* firm (I don't even have any employees at this point), I'm well aware of the challenges and requirements a small business has to face. So in a way, this is going to be my answer to all the challenges "mom 'n' pop" firms have to face with every day. Anways, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
