UNIX admin wrote: >> And regarding the publicity stunts, have you noticed >> the distinct lack >> of them lately? Instead, we have solid deals with >> Intel, MS, and IBM. > > The only *concrete* thing thing that I noticed so far, was the code > contribution made from the intel OpenSolaris team.
Yep, the contributions from the Intel OpenSolaris project are very cool: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/code-contributions/ From what I hear, the project seems to be moving along quite well, too. I understand that Intel has a bunch of engineers in Shanghai, so I hope to meet them when I go there for Tech Days next month. > I haven't seen anything concrete from IBM yet. The ink is probably not even dry on the IBM deal. It's been, what, three weeks now? Give it a bit more time. The engineers I've talked to from IBM have all been quite genuine. > Or Microsoft for that matter. Check out the conference call: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2007-0912/?intcmp=hp2007sep12_msft_news Sun's John Fowler lists a bunch of things that have resulted from the previous Sun-MS arrangements. Hopefully, in the future, that list will include more Solaris content. > I don't see any Microsoft products that run on Solaris, or readily support a > Solaris infrastructure. Well, we'll see in the future, eh? > Likewise, I haven't seen the Sun One Directory server being able to fully and > completely replace Microsoft Active Directory because it is fully > interoperable with AD, meaning that it can supplant it. I don't know jack about that. Sorry. I guess my point was that Sun was famous for doing all sorts of "stunt" marketing in the past, or more accurately stunt "PR" I guess. Whatever. But lately we seem to be interested in cutting deals now based on business, rather than headlines (yet we still generate an amazing amount of press in the process). So, I see this as a critical shift that will help the OpenSolaris community significantly. The community is growing organically -- that's very clear -- but there is real opportunity for more corporate help to fund growth as well. I view these deals as just that. I also view all this as an validation of our success. These things would not be happening had we failed. This project is wildly successful -- far more than most people in the community realize. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
