Hey Bharath On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:21, Bharath Ravi Kumar wrote: > Hi, > I just wanted to mention a new phenomenon in tech marketing that > i came across in India: A number of companies have resorted to giving > away software (with support) to premier institutions in the country > absolutely free.
Yep, that makes perfect sense : of course, OpenSolaris is already absolutely free - but yes, there should be some contact between the OpenSolaris community and universities everywhere. Thankfully, there already is ! There are guys who I believe are looking at this stuff at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/ I've Cc:d that list on this email (sorry for the cross-post) I'd have loved it if my university had OpenSolaris instead of Linux on the curriculum for a whole load of reasons, but I don't want to risk a flamewar, so I'll stop there! Perhaps the -edu folks have ideas that can help implement your excellent suggestion ? The question of support is one I don't know how to answer (I'm kinda busy as is, and probably couldn't cope with taking it on myself ;-) At the very least though, getting OpenSolaris into university curriculums can be done *now* and perhaps support could be provided through general interaction with the community ? Not everything has to be donated from a corporate entity... Thanks for the suggestion though - I think it's a good one. cheers, tim > In addition, they also take time to impart training (through > developers located in the vicinity of the institutions) in the > relevant concepts involved. For instance, a University that governs > colleges around Bangalore mandates that the Linux environment be used > to carry out minor projects in related to Operating Systems in general > & Unix in particular. Linux is advocated primarily because it's free. > Would it not be a good idea to publicize OS and impress upon the Univs > the importance of OS to the area of Operating Systems? So, Operating > Systems courses could involve Solaris as a case study & use OS (which > is free) in their projects. That'd help get word around even better, i > thought (and you have students with the knowledge of Solaris > graduating out). Like I mentioned earlier, this is just an observation > I made. Comments welcome. > Regards, > Bharath > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-mktg mailing list opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org -- Tim Foster - Tools Engineer, Software Globalisation, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Project Lead, Open Language Tools https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net/ http://blogs.sun.com/timf http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~timf
