-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 12:14, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> There is more information here: >> >> http://www.cio.com/article/588163/Oracle_Enacts_all_Or >> _Nothing_Hardware_Support_Policy?taxonomyId=3234 > > Presuming it to be accurate, there are a couple of considerations > that approach misses: > > * some of today's home/educational/small business have influence > over tomorrow's enterprise IT budgets. Indeed, some people are > concurrently in both roles, and those are probably among the more > knowledgeable. > > * while there's no profit in committing oneself to support unpaying users, > they're still good for one (other) thing (assuming they have a way to provide > it): > feedback/bug reports. Every time some nobody finds and reports a bug > before a paying customer does, you don't look like an idiot in front of the > folks that pay the bills.
There's also the point that some of those "home setups" could very well be considered display-cases for larger, commercial, setups. Having people display (Open)Solaris as a rock solid, high performance, solution to the problem, could very well be considered some relatively cheap marketing. Consider the following two alternatives: - -Force all users of Solaris to be commercial customers, and thereby forcing quite a lot of those home setups over to Linux, FreeBSD, or actually Windows (windows has no service-agreement requirement for patches). They display those setups as "this works". - -Allow these small setups to run on fully patched (Open)Solaris for their needs. Without a yearly fee. Then pay some glossy advertising bureau to tell about how well the non-displayed solution works. When reading those alternatives, consider how much technical people trust advertising. //Svein - -- - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | [email protected] \ / |Solberg Østli 9 | PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X |2020 Skedsmokorset | [email protected] / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | [email protected] ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | [email protected] Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +-------------------+------------------------------- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |[email protected] | RIPE handle: SS16503-RIPE - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at [email protected] This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. - ------------------------------------------------------------ Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkusmlsACgkQSBMQn1jNM7Yj6gCgzR6tlotcRJEQr4Sifq9Nfhoi L88AoIk79LL+C7Dh7u1azu2B0wIrAtVi =v+9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
