On 06/17/10 02:35, Milan Jurik wrote: > The reason is simple for improving "desktop feeling" and you heard it > here already - people prefer to use system which they know, on both > sides. And not every admin will maintain own desktop at home for himself > and the other for the rest of his family. I am not saying we should push > commercial games for OpenSolaris. But we should try to make OpenSolaris > good enough for typical users also. Otherwise only small portion of > people will know about Solaris and will use Solaris on universities and > will use it in their datacenters. > > If OpenSolaris will end in niche market only then it is on way to die. > All niche markets are shrinking over time. > > There is need for an "OpenSolaris-mostly-everywhere" strategy in > long-term. Otherwise it will be "OpenSolaris-nowhere" sooner or later. >
This was the argument for the Solaris Modernization/Familiarity project and for giving it away for free. But that didn't work. Of course, we have two schools of thought now, one is that Sun failed because it abandoned its "roots", and the other because the change was "too little, too late". The reality is that using the same OS on your desktop as on your server is a benefit like any other, to be weighed with the whole package of costs and benefits. If there is a compelling benefit for them to be different then the industry will adopt different OS's. I think that Oracle management thinks that they can leverage the Solaris enterprise features and closer integration with other Oracle products into a successful enterprise stack. Expect to hear the mantra "Runs best on Solaris and Oracle servers" soon. If even a significant portion of current Oracle customers are persuaded to adopt the whole Oracle stack, then the the purchase of Sun will have been a success. So, does Oracle need to make a better desktop to accomplish that? I don't think anyone really knows and they haven't really decided yet. The same question applies to the whole Open Solaris project, I think. I am not privy to any inside information about the thinking of Oracle management (I wish!), these are just my own thoughts on the subject. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier -----------------------------------------------------------------------| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
