> The problem is one of target audience. OpenSolaris isn't a wholesale
> Linux replacement - that is, it's not intended to do everything that
> Linux does, nor be used everywhere that Linux is. People get confused
> on that. In many ways, OpenSolaris is more like the various *BSD OSes -
> we have a good niche, where our limitations are minimized, and our
> strengths reinforced. People are continually asking for features that
> make OSol more like Linux or Windows, which IS THE WRONG THING.
> We're NEVER going to have the resources to make OSol a direct competitor
> to either in the broad sense. What we do need to spend our time on,
> both as a company and as a community is those niches where OpenSolaris
> makes sense. When we've fulfilled our feature sets for those niches,
> then it's a good idea to look for another niche to expand in. Or, if
> someone offers significant financial incentive to expand into a new
> niche. But it makes no sense to spread ourselves out, trying to
> replicate every feature that someone asks for.
>
It is a first time I hear that OpenSolaris what only one market segment.Why do
we have OpenSolaris on ARM? Why GNOME is ported to OpenSolaris?Lot of SUN
employees are working on different projects to deploy opens osurcemiddleware
applications so needed for OpenSolaris. If we wait that OpenSolarisbecame
absolute leader in one market segment, then we could forgot othermarket segment
without any doubt - just it will be so late to enter to othermarkets.
I believe that SunOS is the best open source kernel and among the best
kernelsin industry and it deserve to be kernel for many different projects
includingmobile phones, netbooks, etc. For example, we plan to suggest to
Googleto try to implement Chrome OS on SunOS kernel instead of Linux. People
chooseLinux because there are lot of middleware application ported on it and
time-to-matketis significantly shorter than using SunOS. From my perspective
SUN with communityhas to do more with porting all available open source
middleware to SunOS kernel.
I ask for more testfarm resources, more tools for porters, more documentation,
etc.
Uros Nedic
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