On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>> James Carlson wrote:
>>> Jim Grisanzio writes:
>>>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
>>>>> "Sun OpenSolaris ...."
>>>> Why would "Sun OpenSolaris" make sense? Actually, that expression has
>>>> been used (incorrectly) in the media, and it's only added to the
>>>> confusion. Also, isn't it a benefit for the distros to share in the use
>>>> of the brand?
>>>
>>> I think it makes a lot of sense, by analogy to Linux. You can't
>>> "install Linux" -- without getting an immediate "which one?" question.
>>
>> You see this as a feature? Spend any time trying to build products
>> for or around "Linux", and you'll quickly start to see it as a bug.
>
> Solaris is a UNIX(tm) system.
>
> Solaris is Solaris which is UNIX(tm).
>
> If you want UNIX then you can go looking for AIX or HPUX or SCO(?) or
> Solaris. I was always under the impression that OpenSolaris was the
> community project that worked with and dealt with the source code to
> Solaris.
>
> Its confusing to everyone .. sales people, engineers, people on the street
> and people I talk to on the phone and even me.
>
> So why not just create something that runs and call it OpenSolaris and then
> we are done with the confusion. There are bigger battles to fight than word
> games.
But the problem with a one-word name like "OpenSolaris" is that it's
not future proof. What happens when you decide, a year from now, that
you want a different "flavor" of OpenSolaris targeted at a different
end-user community or targeted at a different problem space?
There is no such thing as a universal OS that is the solution to every
problem space or the distribution of choice for every end-user
community.
In the real world, we know, intuitively, that there is no such thing
as a universal screw-driver. We know that every toolbox contains many
screwdrivers and we give them different broad-based names to corral
them into general categories... like "philips screwdriver",
"flat-blade screwdriver".. blah, blah.
And we can see other existing OS naming conventions that work in the
real world (like I wrote earlier):
Ubuntu Desktop Edition
Ubuntu Server Edition
So I would like to propose a naming convention that is future-proof,
that shares a "family" of well known operational characteristics and
that the first member of that family be known as:
OpenSolaris Indiana
I'll try to hash out a more complete proposal tomorrow and post it on
tm-policy-dev....
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT
OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/
Graduate from "sugar-coating school"? Sorry - I never attended! :)
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