W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> WOW! Actually, EeePC is one does appeal to me on size >> and prize (though >> I wish it is a bit cheaper here in Ireland), 399 euro >> still a bit much but comparatively good value. The >> size means one can >> carry around like a small book, coat pocket will do >> just >> fine. >> >> It is one of the thing that bright people who make >> full use of the Open >> Source phenomenal as echo here by Havoc Pennington, >> a old time GTK+/GNOME frame, on Linux for consumers >> blog, >> http://log.ometer.com. Well worth reading :) >> >> -Ghee >> > > Actually what's been holding my breaths is what may happen next. I think > everyone is sensing that the computing paradigm is shifting. If ASUS can be > successful in the EeePC venture, there are at least 10 companies in Taiwan > which can do better, hardware-wise (include those who build iPods, Nanos, and > iPhones for Apple--can anyone not be impressed with the look-and-feel of > their hardware?). The key question is, will the software hold? (That is, > how solid is the OS, the resourcefulness of the software provider, etc., > etc.) > > I do not know any professional who is not interested in having something > similar to what the EeePC is being advertised--if the price is right and the > software concerns can be addressed. I will not be surprised if someone at > Sun is already talking to some of the OEM/ODM vendors in Taiwan to hope to > design the next generation Solaris-based EeePC-successors. This market is so > freakingly huge but it seems that Sun, the creator/owner of Java among many > other things, is probably the only player which can pull everything together. > To get into the consumer's market, one really need laser focused attention from start to finish. Sun has never been very good with consumer's market in the past (I said it without biased, but a matter of fact.) May be thing will change in the future now that Jonathan is really looking for volume in everything. Sun do really need to partner with company that really know how to design consumer products, like Sony or Apple :). I think Sony saves Erricson really on the handset. But Apple and Sony are too well established to need Sun :) At the end of the day, whoever can develop and sell flash memory based 7"-9" with a prize tag around $400 and still profitable will make it! Even Sony or Intel come up with a much nicer version but with prize tag $1000 plus, that will just be another laptop.
-Ghee > To my knowledge, many OEM/ODM manufacturers are also very hesitating to get > entangled with GPL (they would rather pay a licensing fee than opening their > hardware spec). As we all know, Solaris is licensed under CDDL. This will > only help. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
