On Apr 5, 2010, at 14:19, Matthias Pfützner wrote: > Therefore the idea > to opensource the software has never been intended to create additional > revenue from it, but to generate mind-share with the developer community, so > that in FUTURE more ISVs, or big software-companies or even smaller mid-market > software companies would again prefer Solaris as the basis for their > apps. And, yes, that worked! Not in the way many hoped it would, but yes, it > generated more mind-share, and with that additional HW-sales.
Exactly right. As it turned out it was also comfortably profitable. Sun's terminal problems lay elsewhere. S. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
