On 30/07/07, Korey Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is true that users alone will not make Open Solaris into a great product, > but they are the final judge of its success. The Open Solaris community must > remember who will use their software when the development is done: the user.
Is Solaris really trying to be the best desktop OS? That seems a *really* odd direction to push in, given its obvious superiority on the server end. > If a large number of desktop users should be the first priority, targeting > the Linux developer's community is a poor strategy. These developers are > already a small subset of all developers, and hundreds of Linux distros > compete for their limited time. In targeting them, Solaris has chosen the > hardest possible target when much easier targets exist. Developers matter because they write/port the software sysadmins need. Most people use Windows because it came with their PC, not for any technical reason. I don't see any mileage in trying to out windows windows. OSX has already done that, anyway :) -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
