On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:53 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > As for the last 5 years - name 5 high profile, main stream, software > titles that have come to Solaris x86 - not drivers like OSS, or > plugins like Flash/Shockwave or Real, but application suites like > MYOB, Peachtree accounting etc. etc.
I thought RealPlayer10 was pretty cool. In fact, I was a tad glad to get software that could stream Sun's media, and since have been able to see many other interesting things. Here's one here of Marc Andreesen: http://www.sun.com/jsp_utils/ipr.jsp?elink=http://webcast-east.sun.com/ramgen/archives/VIP-2253/VIP-2253_01_300.rm&ilink=http://webcast-mpk1.sfbay.sun.com/webcast/archives/MAP/index.html?VIP-2253_01_200.rm That's satisfying to be able to view on Solaris x86/x64. You'll probably laugh at this one, but StarOffice is now included with Solaris. This is significant, and honestly the only non-ms solution that will allow folks to co-exist with a hostile document environment. Oracle. Need I say more. A very much needed entity for making Solaris viable in the server space with Sun's lower cost solutions on x64. Again, see Andreesen's comments above for a real world breakdown. Sybase, a niche player in the DB space, but a definite enterprise solution. BEA, Legato, SAS, Synopsis, Cadence...yes these are all big hitters for Solaris, IMO. Mozilla products, again these are packaged with Solaris and as of soon to come build 41, you'll have Firefox and Thunderbird. And those will update as we move forward. EVERYONE needs a browser, and email client. I figure Mozilla will continue also, for those that prefer it. Sun is completely responsible for this and the users of Solaris have a decent browser. Just on the Mozilla, StarOffice, and RealPlayer, is a big part of my desktop, not to mention that it can function as an enterprise quality server Anyway, there's many more and I don't have time as I'm still on travel from last week...heading home tomorow...but let me tell you this... Over the past few months I've traveled and have been able to use my Solaris laptop on wifi, wired, and ethered (in the sense of machine to machine) connections. I've used it in resturaunts, ferrys, offices, homes, et al. There are also more applications than ever before. I truely can function well these days and can connect back to Sun's VPN or use the net from most anywhere. Sun's hardware which is starting to trickle out is top notch also. This system is truely kicking @$$, err, I mean butt (our old CEO used to tell us to kick butt, not @$$;-). There is only one area I see fault with at Sun, and I'd love to comment on it, but I'm not allowed to talk about Corporate Marketing in an honest sense.<wink> Cheers. (from the patio at my parent's house using VPN over wifi;-) -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
