hello I met a charitable trust in Coimbatore yesterday that has a project to donate 70 low cost compuers, I took a Solaris desktop, showed them the machine and talked them out of old machines, talked them out of machines that are too low cost, presented Solaris, talked about "the most advanced operating system in the planet", talked about the importance of security and the security features in solaris etc., showed them Star Office, showed them Net Beans and got them interested.
There was a Network Administrator present, he asked me if System Administration is difficult in Solaris. He said in Windows System Administration is easier, I told them that a network of 50 or more computers will infact require a System Administrator, Windows or Solaris. I said in Solaris the system adminstrion is different, but not more difficult. He wants to know: 1) Is system administation more difficult or more complicated in Solaris ? What he probably wants to know is whether solaris has GUI interfaces on the desktop for at least the common system adminstrative tasks. 2) If Vbasic is part of the syllabus and if students have to do Vbasic assignments in the computer as part of their lab assignments, can a solaris machine be enabled to do that ? I have come as far as talking them out of 70 used machines for about 7,000 a unit and instead opt 40 or 50 for new entry level Open Solaris machines for about 15,000 or lower, including a monitor. The desktop computer I am developing is is a higher end product, but I found this opportunity interesting as it gets Solaris across to the other extreme. Solaris has so far been a "techie" or I would even say, an "elite" O/S. If high school students in a very average school in a small town find the O/S easy to work with, it means something. Can Open Solaris help ? For a start by clearing the Network Administrator's misgivings ... Thank you Sivasubramanian. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070404/465febac/attachment.html>
