Uros Nedic wrote:
>
> ...why SUN, as a global corporation when decided to go to the market of
> operating systems
> for personal computers, laptops, nettops, netbooks, etc., did not make some
> contacts with
> Adobe, Autodesk, Wolfram Research and other software vendors to ask them for
> porting their
> commercial software to OpenSolaris?
What makes you think Sun didn't do this? The soon-to-be-released Adobe Acrobat
for OpenSolaris & Solaris x86 is one example of a company heavily lobbied by Sun
to port. When it comes to dealing with other companies, you're not going to
know most of what happens, because it happens behind closed doors - not all
companies are interested in transparency or in weakening their position in
ongoing negotiations by having details made public.
> And for the end of this letter - last observation. Here, we will develop
> drivers for existing
> and old devices, but also, SUN should approach big hardware vendors (at
> least!), and agree
> with them driver support for their future hardware products.
Again, been happening for years. In the area I'm most familiar with, Intel &
nVidia work with us to make sure their new graphics products have drivers when
released.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
