On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:21:57 -0800
Ann Sunhachawee <Ann.Sunhachawee at Sun.COM> wrote:
[...]
> > That's true, but personally I think this reflects a philosophical
> > difference between the two operating systems. I think many of our
> > power-users would be disappointed if they couldn't find a way to adjust
> > the VPN configuration to fit their needs. On the other hand, OS X users
> > seem to be used to the "Apple Knows Best" philosophy.
> >
> Given Apple's marketshare and popularity, it might be time for Solaris
> to try a new strategy to attract NEW customers. I'm sure we'll hear from
> the power users via bugs and blogs if it's a problem for them that we
> don't provide everything via the GUI.
If the percentage of market share that Apple had was a larger (waffle)
portion of the market I might say that was a good argument. But given
that recently has been put at ~5% of the computer manufacturer market
share I disagree. Multiply that by the coorlation between the two
markets and its not clear that this new strategy is correct for a large
portion of our current or future users.
>
> NWAM team - do you have any input on if we can provide some optimization
> for well known VPN clients on Solaris?
I think we should provide the generic mechanism and use feedback from
customers to provide support for commonly used ones. This provides a
nice extension mechanism both for our power users and for quickly
reacting new things people want to do without needing to rev any of the
supported software components. If feedback suggests that we should
provide built in support for certain things then we add that in the
future.
That is start with a way that users can do a wider set of operations
and refine that as time permits instead of starting out with less
functionality and extending that as necessary. That probably indicates
my bias towards building infrastructure that developers can use to
build systems instead of trying to build software intended for end user
consumption. But I think thats a reasonable differentiation between
SMI and AAPL also.
mph
>
> Ann
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