On 06.07.2010 16:21, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Oracle's interest in opensolaris is for the sake of improving solaris,
> for use in servers.  They have nothing to gain (except lots of headache)
> by trying to make opensolaris good as a desktop operating system.  They
> cannot displace windows or osx in environments which use MS or Apple. 
> The only desktop OS they could reduce would be Ubuntu. 

I have exactly one product name for you: "Sun Blade".

> There is no commercial benefit for oracle to try displacing ubuntu in
> the desktop market.

No, but there IS a commercial benefit in trying to get (back) into
graphics workstations. The customer looking for a serious workstation
usually has less difficulty paying for quality than the user looking for
a webbrowser-in-a-box. A Solaris box capable of running display
calibration software (Spyder) and Lightroom+DxO Optics+Photomatix
Pro+PhotoShop would get my attention rather efficiently.

And I know the Geoframe Charisma users out there are more than willing
to pay for Sun^wOracle boxes...

Now what was your argument again?

//Svein

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