Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
That, imho, may or may not perpetuate Solaris. Solaris is increasingly becoming a niche OS for 'specialized' environments with Linux slowly heading in the same direction. Current Solaris old hands are adamant that nothing change but unfortunately, the current Solaris environment does not appeal beyond the current Solaris market space. It is time that Solaris take on GNU/Linux by draining their mindshare and then giving others a reason to move to Solaris when it is no longer seen as irrelevant and niche.
I certainly don't agree with the "current Solaris old hands" comment since many of those engineers are actually quite young and they are the people who built S10, ported to x86/x64, and then opened all this code. Yet you say they are "adamant" that nothing change? I'm confused. They changed pretty much everything.
Also, I think we as a community are doing pretty well. We really don't need to go out and "take on" and "drain" the "mindshare" from other communities. I'd much rather we grow organically at our own pace and earn our way as we go.
Jim -- Jim Grisanzio, Sr. Program Manager, OpenSolaris Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
