As most of the documentation is in Japanese I don't understand what makes Midoris any different a Wine distribution than say Crossover or Bordeaux...do you happen to have any information?
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Anon Y Mous <system5u...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 >
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