>>>>> "Keith" == Keith M Wesolowski <Keith> writes:
>> Academic & Research >> High Performance Computing Keith> These would seem to have a good deal in common. Another merger Keith> opportunity? If nothing else, I'd like to better understand what Keith> makes research itself a unique element, as opposed to Groups Keith> simply sponsoring research in their respective areas of Keith> expertise. I think people who are doing research will have some things in common that cut across technology areas. The primary goal in research is to produce papers, not product-quality software. For example, I expect the research community (lower-case "community") to be more willing to make incompatible changes and to have less interest in architectural review or testing. Whether that merits a separate OpenSolaris Community, I don't know. It's a little bit like testing--do you spread the test engineers among the different product teams, or do you have a separate test team (whose members work on different projects)? If nothing else, having a separate Research Community would provide a single place for researchers using OpenSolaris to "meet", find out what everyone is working on, maybe find ways to leverage each others' work. Having some input from actual researchers would be useful here. mike
