Scott-
This is an outstanding response - better than I had hoped for. Now that I'm
back out of bed (there's a rather unpleasant flu running around - I literally
couldn't pull the brainpower together to post an intelligible message) I
finally want to respond to it!
What I got out of this is
Thanks UX-admin, I have always respected your opinion around here.
I think your idea is great and I would be behind you 100%.
BUT...
Again, the barriers to entry are huge. Maybe you have a market for your target
as I am way out of touch with enterprise needs and such (cater to really small
Again, the barriers to entry are huge. Maybe you have
a market for your target as I am way out of touch
with enterprise needs and such (cater to really small
biz). But for the SBS audience, to quote a cliche,
you (or anyone who tries to do this really as many
have already) is fighting an
Bill Moffitt wrote:
So, there's only one question left: what's going to make those five people
sitting around in somebody's garage look around and, instead of coming to the
conclusion that they need a Windows server, come to the obvious and
irrefutable conclusion that they need a Solaris
Peter-
Believe it or not, this is a question I have been pondering ever since I left
Sun in 2005- how can Solaris, with its many winning attributes (open source,
reliability, security, wealth of services, etc.) be turned into a viable
competitor to Microsoft Windows Small Business Server?
(Continued)
So, the first question that should be asked is, Why do these small businesses
need a server? In my limited and unscientific inquiries, I have found two
answers:
1.) For a collaboration space, so we can have email, internal web, file
sharing, and other collaboration services that
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What do others (particularly others who have been
involved in buying a first server for a small
business) think about this?
I will probably end up rambling but I would like to chime in since I have much
experience with this area (SMB's with employees10 ).
I started to 'consult'
The ideas presented within are not revolutionary but
I hope they represent an evolutionary next stage for
smaller server/appliance systems. I've attached the
proposal, as it about two pages long, hopefully this
will also avoid unnecessary quoting in the
responses.
Looking forward
That looks like a very interesting product. My first comment would be the name.
This will be a pretty powerful box for the market you are going for, so I don't
see lite as an appropriate term. I'm sure Sun's marketing folks can come up
with something nice. ;-)
Thinking about it some more, it
That looks like a very interesting product. My first
comment would be the name. This will be a pretty
powerful box for the market you are going for, so I
don't see lite as an appropriate term. I'm sure
Sun's marketing folks can come up with something
nice. ;-)
I'd call it IPX2, but then
Well, I'm not a marketing person, but in Sun's product line, its very light
(think V125, then V240, then T2000, then X4500/X4600, then Ex000, then Exx000,
its pretty light on most things)
Also Apple's naming of the Mini, state or understate what the product is and
let the market place be wowed
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