On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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;-)
Which is nice, but the fact is, thats server software - I'm refering
to workstation software.
Which brings me back, are we going to see that "Solaris is suitable
only for the server"? because so far, that seems to be the excuse
getting trucked out.
Sure, I can advocate Solaris as a great server OS, it wins hands down;
but please, lets not try to kid ourselves that Solaris is there as a
workstation OS, it hasn't even hit FreeBSD ease of use yet - if it
reached that, then I'd be very happy, in fact, so happy I'd run around
my house naked, but the simple fact if I were to load Solaris 10 on
right now, there is no way to easily upgrade my X server, put an up to
date KDE on it.
I want to see Solaris improve, but at the same time, its a painful
experience using it as a desktop.
Matty
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