Rich Teer wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Why should it be bad to keep new people happy? There aren't > > It's not--unless it is at the expense of current users. > >> that many Solaris users out there, after all - especially not if >> you compare that to switchers, from, let's say, Linux. > > There's a very old and wise saying: "Make new friends but keep the > old, for the new are silver but the old are gold". Replace friends > with customers, and perhaps my point will be clearer. > > To take it to an absurd extreme, pehaps we should drop DTrace in favour > of SystemTap, or ZFS for Ext3? After all, that is what people coming > from Linux would expect...
You're right, that's an absurd extreme. We're talking about changing defaults in software that exists on both platforms. Not replacing one completely disparate component with another. > Sun is trying to make Solaris like Linux so much it's hurting (them). > I'm all for adopting new technologies from other platforms, or taking > inspiration from them (I'm not a NIH Neanderthal!), but not at the > expense of what makes Solaris Solaris rather than SoLinux. Actually, it should be very obvious by now from various press articles, etc. that OpenSolaris (the distribution) is far more popular than you give it credit for. -- Shawn Walker
