My apologies Alan, I am not sure what the proper way to verify that wass is accurate. It was written in such a way that it seemed authoritative, and since it (as far as I can tell) hasn't been decided that there will be a binary Operating system called OpenSolaris, it seemed an odd announcement. (I missed the OGB call due to work commitments, so asking if this was covered, I thought was a fair question.)
I was trying to verify with Sun, whether this was in fact the case, and since the OGB is acting as liason to the community with Sun, my thought was to check with the OGB. In the future, should I contact Bill Franklin directly? -Brian On Nov 15, 2007 3:06 AM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Brian Gupta wrote: > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216876,00.asp > > > > What are they talking about? This has to be a case of left hand not > > knowing what the right hand is doing. Was this covered during the OGB > > meeting? > > No, the OGB doesn't cover press reports, misleading or not, about Sun's > products. Anyone who has ever worked on a product covered in the trade > press knows how little you can count on accurate reporting - when you > have engineers explain the technology to marketing/PR people who then > explain it to press people who are in a rush to write on a deadline, > miscommunication is inevitable, and errors creep in often. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
