---- Original Message ----- From: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > >> When Solaris has the same level of hardware support both out of the box >> and official, and software availability in the form of off the shelf >> boxed products from big name vendors, then Sun and its minions can be >> judgemental over Windows. Until then, anything said against Microsoft and >> Windows by those minions make the discussion little more than blind >> hatred of something for no reason other than jealousy. > > With all your comments about how poor the support on Solaris is, I have to > wonder, wasn't it you who mentioned you installed this for your parents? > If Solaris truely lacks the type of software that they would want, and Sun > hasn't made any progress with Solaris over the past couple years, why is > it that you installed it for them in the first place? Because they have very basic computer requirements and that their hardware is so old, it would be a joke if it wasn't supported out of the box. > Are your parents developers? I don't get it. Solaris must have something > going for it if you did in fact install it for your parents, or how could > they use it? I installed it myself for them. They're happy - but the issue isn't them but me and my experience. > Aside from the diatribe that has been mentioned here, I will say this. > Solaris has been difficult for most to install, and it has been difficult > at best for most of them to configure, but there are people that can do > that. What is most amazing to me is that I know for certain that if > Solaris is properly setup with a minimal amount of software, the average > person can take it and use it. I have seen non-technical people do this > first hand, and they've ran builds of S10 and older on their laptops for > more than a year at a time. > > You suggest Sun should spend a chunk of their savings to enhance the > desktop. Well, I have to believe that someone knows what they're doing to > keep a company with 35,000 people working for it going. I don't think it's > by pure luck that they showed earnings of $0.09/share in the last quarter. When you main source of income is the US, its deficit based economic grow (look at federal budget deficit) plus a weak dollar, they all work in favour of a US based company - there are issues outside so-called 'excellent management'. Running on laptops is not the same as supporting laptops; there is more to a computer than just a processor, hard disk, graphics card, memory. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
