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--- Begin Message ---And this is where Sun needs to spend some $$ on good marketing and reaching out the schools and universities to change these perceptions. I mean when was the last time we saw a Sun commercial on the TV? There are some good ones on-line poking fun at Dell, but that's about it. Sun puts a lot on the table and contributes in soo many ways to the open source community. Unfortunately, it's lost in translation somewhere along the line. The key thing is that Sun and the OpenSolaris community need to work towards sending out the right message and being consistent. Winning the hearts and minds of the Linux camp should not be a major focus. We have to differentiate ourselves in such a way that we attract new developers and businesses looking for a solution. Focusing on the Linux camp is not the right thing to do. It's no different than trying to convince a Windows user to switch to Linux or the other way around. The best we can do is make the migration to OpenSolaris or Solaris easy. People don't want more of the same, they want something different and better;) Octave --- Michael Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why so much blind hate towards Sun and Solaris? It > > seems that everything Sun does is never good enough, > > and there is always some nit or fault to find. Is it > > because Sun hardware was something to drool over, but > > couldn't be afforded by the average geek? Is it anger > > towards historically high prices of Sun hardware? > > What is it? > > > > That's gotta be a rhetorical question, still here goes... > > There's two (contridictory) attitudes at slashdot: > 1)If it's not Linux, it's crap > 2)Apple can do no wrong > > There's more to it than that (their perception that Sun has > waffled between supporting and condemning open source, > resentment over Sun's control of Java), but even if you > removed those factors, Sun would never been good enough > simply because they're not Ubuntu or Gentoo or Apple. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
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