> No intended spin. I think that Solaris is great, in > many ways the best. I'm just curious about why Joe CS > Student is going to be really interested in it as a > workstation or mid/low-end server compared to the > alternatives. I see a potential issue because they > will probably run OS X or Linux on their personal > workstation and then find it easier to deploy those > solutions on the job.
I'm quite sure there are other people thinking about that too. Perhaps only time will tell how effectively they are _doing_ something about it. There certainly are plenty of attempts at "outreach". > I think Solaris will expand it's current install base > very impressively -don't get me wrong, I'm more > curious about the pace of that growth -How to gage > that, than the actual hardware issues on a specific > level. You can check out my reply to my original post > if you feel like hearing more out of me. =) Well...some examples of things that are measurable: * number of downloads * number of derivative distributions * number of drivers added since Solaris 10 * number of accounts on opensolaris.org * number of schools incorporating OpenSolaris into their curriculum somehow (OS internals courses, for example); perhaps more usefully, the number of students taking such courses. * number of external contributions (not just code, but documentation and other efforts too) Problem is, IMO some of those numbers are very "dirty" in terms of estimating growth; how many people stick with something after a single download is probably rather difficult to determine. And not all of that and similar info may be generally available. If I were to make a wild guess, I'd say there are some folks trying to estimate future growth as best they can, but for business reasons, they might not tell everything they know until there is an advantage to doing so. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
