Hey, Alan DuBoff wrote: > Fundamentally, Sun seems to look at OpenSolaris as a product, and I > think there's fault in that vision.
Well, Indiana is intended to be a product - an OpenSolaris distribution with a regular release schedule. > One problem I have is that whenever corporate gets their minds around > products, they start to associate revenue streams with them. OpenSolaris > should not be thought of in that regard, and more to the point, Sun > should focus their marketing and revenue streams around Solaris which is > their product. This is similar to the relation between RHES and Fedora > for Red Hat, and I see Ubuntu being much different than Fedora in that > regard, isn't Ubuntu a business/company? There's absolutely nothing stopping Sun (or any other vendor) from potentially taking an OpenSolaris release and offering support for it. There is value in that, though obviously you'd hope that with the community initiative you'd get a lot of that support already. At the end of the day, Sun makes that call itself, separately. > I am very confused about some of the recent events in regards to > OpenSolaris, including your involvment, and not sure how marketing and > engineering co-exist in the free world to be honest. Actually, in my experience there has been *more* of a need for open source communities to have a good marketing team behind them. GNOME has suffered for years through missed opportunities, incoherent messaging, and the ability to communicate outside the direct set of contributors. Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
