W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > No one knows what Sun's employees use for their desktops. But almost > everyone I know pays special attention to what Sun's employees use in their > laptops--where we can actually see for ourselves. And it is easy to reach a > conclusion, rightly or wrongly, that NONE of Sun's own employees are using > their own product. >
Well, answering for myself and colleagues in my group, we all run Solaris on our laptops, except for one person who uses an Apple laptop and runs Solaris under VMware. We're customer-facing, frequently presenting to customers from our laptops, and you're right that customers do notice and do often comment on us running Solaris, so I make a point of doing so, and making sure it gets seen. And if you think a customer hasn't noticed, moving a compiz wobbly window or rotating the desktop cube is pretty much guaranteed to generate comments and questions on what you're running. (Many of the customers we deal with are Enterprise customers who rarely actually see a Solaris desktop, so this has more impact than it would amongst the Indiana community.) I do also have Windows on my laptop. The only remaining reason I have to drop into it is to connect up to the Internet via my Nokia phone, which sadly doesn't have a Solaris driver. (I've tried playing with the interface under Solaris and it looks like a USB serial port to Solaris, but nothing I send to it such as AT commands seems to get any response.) -- Andrew _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
