Hello, I am interested in investing in Sun, and I see Solaris as one of it's greatest assets. The problem that I see (And am in no way asserting that I'm smart enough to be right.) is that Solaris only works well on a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the hardware that's out there.
Is Sun planning on expanding it's Solaris install-base to older and cheaper hardware as well? I would like to see Solaris on the march to attract, to be blunt, low income students and developers who have no plans to own nice hardware. (Plus, with the economy the way it is, more and more people will be hanging on to legacy hardware.) The other major thing that would really boost the install base (As I see it) is to attract developers like Adobe. I've talked to a few Adobe programmers who say that Solaris/Linux development is a long ways away, if at all, but I mean, they are developing photoshop for the iphone - How hard could it be to open source an old version of photoshop and allow users to port it to linux/solaris at the very least? (That's not really my main question, I'm just hoping the right person reads it.) =) Does it seem awkward to anyone else that one of the best workstation OS's on the planet isn't capable of very much audio/visual work at all? Thanks in advance, -Taylor -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
