An Open Letter to the OGB Board There have been several concerns raised to me by different OGB members that I would like to address.
The first concern is, does Sun still plan to support the OpenSolaris Charter defined at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/cab/governance/ In a word yes. However, I would like to offer, as a senior member of the Solaris management team, to meet with the OGB at a future meeting to have an extended dialog about any concerns in this area. Secondly, I am keenly aware that there is a tremendous amount of community discussion at this time around both naming of OpenSolaris distributions and acceptable use of the OpenSolaris trademark. I believe good progress is being made on the trademark usage and look forward to having the community and Sun come to mutual agreement. I also believe once the OpenSolaris trademark policy is defined, community members will have much fewer concerns around the "OpenSolaris Developer Preview" name. I appreciate all the work of the OGB and other community members in this process. Finally, and to me most importantly, a huge thank you to everyone who helped make yesterday's developer preview possible. As I said in my blog, I can't tell you how many people told me over the last six months that there was no way we would get a release out in October, and I'm very glad the community proved all of those people wrong. But especially a huge thank you to Bill Franklin's entire engineering team, including Dave Miner and the install team, Frank Ludolph from the x-Design team, Stephen Hahn and the IPS packaging team, David Comay and the Solaris Modernization team, and Sara, Glynn, and Jesse from OpenSolaris marketing! No matter what you want to call it, I am certain than many years from now, yesterday's release will be looked back on as a landmark in the history of OS development and open source communities! Marc Hamilton Vice President, Solaris Marketing Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton marc.hamilton at sun.com
