Blaster wrote:
I'm glad to have asked. This isn't the use I would
have guessed as being most desirable. That's the
danger inherent when engineers (even experienced
ones like me) think they know customer's needs ;-)
Attending some of Sun's seminars on Solaris, SRSS an NFS functionality in a
zone seem to be two of the most asked for features from Sun.
That's interesting. What Solaris seminars did you
attend? What was the level of interest in Sun
Ray, would you say? Perhaps marketing is getting
this feedback. I'm just an engineer, it's not
surprising (nor particularly important, since I
don't decide what features we'll implement) that
I'm not getting it. Perhaps somebody from
marketing can comment on the feedback received
from Sun's Solaris seminars about relative
importance of features, and whether this matches
what we are hearing.
Shouldn't all of Sun's products simply support all of the features of their
own products? If Sun refuses to make their own products zonable, how is
that setting a good example for other vendors?
We're doing a lot of things, but we can't do
everything. There are features of Sun's products
that are of little interest to the vast majority
of SRSS users. Would it make sense to focus on
them at the expense of features which are known to
be more interesting to the community, even if, for
example, they are unrelated to the rest of Sun's
products (e.g. Windows Connector).
We have to prioritize and offer the features we
judge best for our customers with the resources we
have available. Good management and
prioritization is what keeps costs from
skyrocketing and making products unaffordable.
In particular, there are many ways one could
imagine Sun Ray interoperating with Zones. They
all require effort to implement, and some may be
more interesting to our customers than others. I
get that you're imagining "zonable" to imply SRSS
running within a zone, rather than, for example,
logging users into zones. So you no doubt feel
that we should put effort into the former before
the latter. So far that seems to be the consensus
opinion.
I think the request we hear loudest at the moment
is faster video performance. That has nothing
to do with Sun's other products. How does it
balance against this request?
Your help in prioritization is appreciated. Our
goal is to make the most attractive product we
can, with the resources we have available. This
community is very helpful to us in achieving that
goal. The more people requesting a feature - the
sooner you're likely to see it.
Regards,
Bob
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this mail are my own,
and are not necessarily shared by my employer
Our standard with Solaris 10 is to install no applications in the global
zone, everything gets a zone. Our DNS servers are in zones, our NIS
servers, X servers, web servers, Java servers, etc, etc, etc.
When zones become more and more portable, this virtualizes the OS and makes
moving to other hardware easy.
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