On Tuesday 30 January 2007 06:44 pm, Ian Collins wrote: > Like Dennis, I've been here since the pilot, but unlike Dennis, my > contribution has been negligible.
I would argue that you've been around and a part of the Solaris x86 community for quite some time. It's really not about anyone doing more, or less, it's about everyone doing whatever they can. There's a lot of people that have been around various communities hanging off the wire, and things continue to get better than where they were, IMO. > Unlike OpenSolaris, the Linux world has a many corporations paying for > work on the kernel, drivers and applications. But Sun has a tremendous amount of engineers working on Solaris, more than any other single company, IMO. > I don't think the community involvement in OpenSolaris > will grow until we have more companies willing to pay for work on the > project. I don't believe that. And Sun is paying for a lot of engineers to work on it. > The big question is how can we make this happen? Is there a demand from > corporate users willing to pay for drivers and functionality? If there > is, can Sun (who I assume know who wants what) through OpenSolaris > connect them with developers in the community able to do the work? One of the more likely candidates for such a project might be 3Ware. Anyone interested in working on 3Ware drivers? -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
