OK, the last new killer game-changing application in OpenSolaris was time slider, which made it's debut in 2008.11, well now Jaris (the Japanese Solaris distro) seems to have this new Wine-like tool already set up that makes it VERY easy for clueless new users with no previous UNIX experience to use all of their already purchased, pre-existing Microsoft Windows software inside OpenSolaris. I've added a link below, which I'm hoping points to an English translation of the Japanese documentation done by Google:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://jaris.jp/support-howto2.html&ei=JQ9nSuOfF4_YsgPLxfXnDg&sa=X&oi=translate Is there any chance we can get this "Midoris" feature included by default in one of the upcoming releases of Sun's official OpenSolaris Indiana distribution (so we all aren't forced to switch from Indiana to Jaris to get this feature pre-installed by default), or is there a licensing issue that prohibits this? Compiling Wine from source and then trying to get everything patched together back in my 2008.05 days was a real pain. I say we take Thunderbird or some other app that's eating space off from the upcoming 2010.02 release and put Midoris on the live CD-ROM so that I can make a live CD demo of TimeSlider + Midoris + CIFS that will impress the heck out of my customers. OpenSolaris as it is right now is just a mere curiosity for a lot of IT people that involves words they don't understand like "dtrace" and "smf". The very first question people in small business IT shops ask when I show them OpenSolaris is "will Photoshop or Microsoft Outlook or Quickbooks or ACT! or Crystal Reports or Epicore or Microsoft Word or [insert name of Windows app here] run on OpenSolaris?" And when I tell them it probably won't without hours of pain and suffering trying to port some unstable Linux Wine environment over from Linux to Solaris, that usually ends their interest in OpenSolaris and the end result is thousands of dollars in potential Solaris support contracts lost forever to Redmond. Now if I could walk in to Microsoft IT shops and just give them the live CD and tell them to boot it up and tell them that all their Windows apps will work seamlessly without them having to install or compile anything, AND show them what ZFS does, AND get the live OpenSolaris CD to join the Windows work group and share files over CIFS at the click of the button. If we can do all that, then I guarantee you that there will be a massive tectonic shift to OpenSolaris almost overnight (I'm talking exponential growth and exponential increase in revenues for Sun via support contracts). Millions of people are looking for something to switch to instead of Windows Vista, and OpenSolaris could be it! Please don't let this opportunity pass us by! The key to make OpenSolaris successful in small businesses environments is to make it inter-operate with CISCO and Microsoft products better than Linux does. Make OpenSolaris inter-operate with the already established Microsoft IT base of millions of desktop computers hooked up into an Active Directory powered by CISCO routers and switches that exists in many businesses today and there is no way that Red Hat Linux will be able to complete. OpenSolaris will dominate and become the enterprise OS of choice. Computer hardware manufacturers will all embrace OpenSolaris because ZFS performs better with more RAM (and the hard ware manufacturers are looking for an excuse to up sell the customer to a more powerful computer) and Sun and all the people who worked so hard on OpenSolaris will benefit immensely from this new found success. What do you guys think? Midoris in the next version of OpenSolaris? Yes or No? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
