> this is a classic request of Solaris Marketing, "here > is the ammunition > to make the case that a port of your application has > market value". In > the old days of the catalyst books and big tar balls > it was relatively > easy to get Third Party Software Vendors to port, now > the additional > issues of packaging and repositories make the > argument harder, unless > pkg.opensolaris.org is willing to make a available > for free a home for > applications that have cost associated... [...]
Technical assistance with packaging and porting, and something similar to an apps store (but with a cut for the operator only large enough to recover costs of operating the site and providing the packaging/porting assistance, at least initially), would IMO go a long way towards making modern commercial application distribution more attractive. Of course, an application pricing model that didn't make apps for [Open]Solaris 10x more expensive than Windows apps would also help. Anymore, _nobody_, not businesses and not individuals, wants to pay crazy prices like that even for hardware, let alone software. (support costs are a different story - if someone needs 5 9s, they're going to have to expect to pay for it) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
