On 3/31/06, Thomas Maier-Komor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am still thinking what the major issues are that many people don't give > Solaris a real chance. Therefore, I want to consider how others sell their > product and create a good image. > > The image of Solaris is all about the big iron. Machines with many > processors, redundance, and so on. But nobody has this at home, so nobody > really considers it as being an alternative for SOHO use. But apart from the > issues I mentioned in my post "Solaris vs. Slowaris", I don't really think > Solaris is missing anything particular for application in this area. >
Yes Linux people are still beating this to death or they were, what we need is a marketing campain that shows how new fresh and fast solaris is for the home/SOHO crowd. Everyone knows if you want to scale you use Solaris. What the linux crowd hasn't seen is how easy Solaris has made all the new features, were not ready for the desktop yet, but we do make one hell of a small server. A short 15minute movie posted on video.google.com of How to deploy Solaris as a home server. 5 minutes on how to install from a DVD, 5 minutes on the wonders of ZFS and how easy it is to do things for the home user, 5 minutes explaining and demoing SMF. We could even make a series of video shorts demoing each aspect of the OS, deploying a webserver in a zone, creating a web pressence quickly and easily with java creator, no java needed. Deploying Sun Rays in the home with the focus on used hardware sure it won't help sunray sales but getting people to use them is an important first step. And many more... The one last piece that Solaris needs is a gui/text based firewall installer/configuration tool that makes a Solaris firewall as easy to setup as the small hardware routers are today. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com > So what makes the difference? What do others do? > - BMW talks about "Fahrvergnügen", which is actually a German word, but > people seem to like it. > - Apple doesn't talk at all, they only have some dancing persons > - Marlboro - I think this cowboy died some years ago of cancer, but now they > have a new one and nobody cares ;-) > - ... > > And what makes an OS fancy? When and how do you "see" an OS? During booting! > What does Windows show us during booting? A nice logo. > Linux? Penguins and a lot of information about the system it is running on. > > And Solaris? A release number, a patch id that no newbie understands, and a > license statement! Bah! > After this nothing happens for a long time and one begins waiting much > earlier and this makes the system being felt slow during this process. > > Say what you want. Choosing an OS is based on psychological effects, too. So > booting Solaris must be _way_ cool! Linux shows a number of Penguis that > equals the number of processors. > > If I run boot -v on a Sun I get a lot of useful information, but only if I > understand what all these numbers are. /[EMAIL PROTECTED],600000/... is > really accurate, but useless in most cases. Why not a give a summary of the > upcoming system? > E.g. number and kind of processors, disks, NICs, busses (PCI, USB, ....), > memory, filesystem status and utilization. > > PLEASE: make booting Solaris an experice that everybody wants to share on his > machine. I bet people will double their efforts to learn and understand the > system if it is hip, funky, or whatever. > > This could be available for the next update release of Solaris 10! It has > _zero_ functionality and needs almost no testing. Give it to the marketing > gurus and let them do something really useful. But tell them that it needs to > be running on a VT100. Maybe they'll come up with an ASCII art solution. > Let's see ;-) > > What's your proposal? How should it look like to boot Solaris? > > Cheers, > Tom > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
