On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 07:29 -0700, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: > > To the powers that be, > > > > Why not? > > > > I assume it is the lack of resources, but then isnt this market > worth the investment? > > > > Anil > > > > PS : Mac OSX, now offcially a Unix, has shown that one can be > adapted for the avg Joe User. > > I don't think it is the lack of resources, it is just that Sun's > direction has so far been on bigger and more powerful systems for > mission critical and large networks and it has done so well on that. I > think Sun will now take a serious look .... And yes, Solaris can > easily be "scaled down", carefully, without compromising on its > inhererent robustness, to that of the average user.
Not true. You'll see Sun aim it at corporate desktops as part of a larger package - a deal on the basis of Solaris server, Solaris desktop etc. etc. Ultimately it'll be the corporate desktop that will dictate what people run at home; what people run at work, they'll eventually run at home. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
