On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:46 -0700, John Martinez wrote: >> >> I think a lot of people keep missing the point that Solaris' bread >> and butter is the enterprise server market. I don't know what the >> ratio of server to desktop installations is, but I'd guess that it's >> very tilted in one direction. Solaris shines on the server. Solaris >> can shine on the desktop, but that isn't its main focus. >> >> Solaris would have to break into a very crowded market and make a >> better GUI. >> >> Competition: >> >> Microsoft >> Apple >> Ubuntu >> SuSE >> others? >> >> You'd have to convince Sun that the desktop market is as, or more >> important than the server market that makes them their revenues. >> >> I love my Macs, but I'd rather have Solaris when I launch the >> Terminal application... > > Question: if Solaris runs on a server but is accessed by end users > on a > Sun Ray - is it a desktop operating system for the end user?
I think so. But again, what is the install base of Sun Rays? > Thats what annoys me, people who throw in the towel, throw up their > hands as if to say, "I give up!" when it comes to Solaris on the > desktop. > > The desktop isn't one big giant monolythic beast. Who's throwing in the towel? Between Windows, Mac OS X and the Linux distros, Solaris has got some tough competition. That is the reality that I'm stating. -john _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
