[osol-discuss] Re: blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-09 Thread UNIX admin
I have a very different opinion. I don't really see anything wrong about Sun's people talking about their own products. Indeed, if I want to find out something about Sun ( more particularly Sun products), blogs.sun.com usually is the first place I start looking. Actually the fact that

[osol-discuss] Re: blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-09 Thread UNIX admin
Right... and I don't disagree with that... but somehow the idea that products start to have their own blogs ... sounds... uhm... weired. Let's come to the point: kernel engineers blogging makes the Sun marketing dept. obsolete. That of course is a problem for a whole bunch of people in the

[osol-discuss] Re: blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-09 Thread UNIX admin
I wouldn't call this organized marketing, I'd liken it more to grassroots or guerrilla marketing. The difference being that it isn't the marketing department driving some agenda, it is simply a development group pushing awareness of their own work on the world. I'd also argue that most

[osol-discuss] Re: blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Hi! Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and not at

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and