Hi, Hopefully, we'll see a positive trend in the education sector. That's how we'll build out our community. Trying to persuade the Linux crowd to defect is highly unlikely.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alex Leverington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Octave Orgeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected]; Akhilesh Mritunjai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:00:50 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree? Alex Leverington wrote: > On May 19, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: > > >> It would be better for Sun to put more effort around building our >> community. The best place for Sun to start is to target colleges, >> universities, start-ups, and the embedded consumer market. Doing >> that will increase the developer community and thusly the user >> community. Doing that does not require any licensing changes, just >> good old fashion marketing and funding. >> > > Indeed, that's exactly what they're doing Yep. University programs started in China almost immediately after OpenSolaris was launched (but no one in the west noticed), and then the India team got involved, and now Sun corporate is funding edu programs globally. It's a big deal, actually, and involves all of the various Sun open source projects. Licensing certainly comes up in these venues but not a great deal. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
