Ultra workstations are too priey for most, they're up there with Macs. Apple doesn't offer anything in full desktop form for sub- $2000, and Sun's desktops at the specifications they should be are sold at $1800. Most organizations buy from Dell because they can get them for $1100 a piece with hardware support. I doubt availability of Codeweavers CrossOver would help Sun's position, they're doing things wrong in other areas. There's a market but hardly as big as you might think. Not many people really like (Open)Solaris these days due to years of stagnation in the public eye, while the truth is not that Sun was slacking, but the way they have always put up their products has not really attracted anyone until lately. There's not enough statistics proving the future of Sun is a viable one, more on the complete opposite with their ticker change, stock split, slow and painful stock devaluing over the last year, and lack of trust in the community just to name a few issues.
Sun has a real PR problem and if they know it or not wouldn't make a difference since the majority of people migrating off of Windows for example would just go with Macs since they're current, their support is always quicker, it's UNIX certified just like Solaris, and it's a lot easier to maintain and develop for. But that's just my take, though I seriously think some people here take the Solaris on the desktop idea too far, it's just not there yet. Thankfully I recently saw Bluetooth finally starting back up again, I'm awaiting better power management and fixes for a number of bugs that have existed since the B70's. Running OpenSolaris in VirtualBox is painfully hilarious, Sun should just loan Jermey an Ultra 40 with 4GB of ram. If Sun can spin its position in the market it's a good bet we'll see it but then again I find FreeBSD to be a better platform than most, it lacks VirtualBox (Which may or may not be rectified now that Sun handles it) and 64-bit NVIDIA drivers (For years, see BSDTalk #146 for my comments about annoyances with FreeBSD, NVIDIA, Sun, Innotek, VMware, Adobe) those are the two things I have always been missing, and sorry to say I find FreeBSD as unsupported as it is by itself a better desktop. There's too much nutty behavior in OpenSolaris. I certainly find 2008.5 to be a regression even though it means well, just too many strange problems. James On May 28, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Ch? Kristo wrote: > Kawai, > > I have volunteered as an advocate to Codeweavers and Jeremy White > from Codeweavers is currently running OpenSolaris in VirtualBox. I > can't speak on their behalf but it would have to be in their > commercial interest to do so. With Sun Rays used in many corporate > environments that shouldn't be to hard to justify. Maybe Sun could > provide some sort of incentive - after all it could help push out > Sun Rays and Ultra Workstations to people who otherwise would look > at Linux, Mac or Windows. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080528/6ec3555a/attachment.html>
