Those wishing to use the Realplayer reader may wish to visit the Real Media site to download the latest compiled version of the Realplayer, really the open-source Helix player (another subject).
Of course, the default version is the Windows version, but the page lists available alternate versions: http://www.real.com/realplayer [/windows]: "Alternate Versions: Mac | Linux" Readers here are most likely to seek the OpenSolaris or Solaris version, but no such obvious link exists at the Real Media website homepage at the moment. Perhaps the Linux version will work: http://www.real.com/realplayer/linux : "Alternate Versions: Windows | Mac | Solaris" So while the homepage links to the Linux version, it does not link to any Solaris version, but the Linux page _does_ link to the Solaris version (It may be best to skip discussion of the implication that Solaris is a version of Linux.): http://www.real.com/realplayer/solaris : "Alternate Versions: Windows | Mac | Linux" To round-out the list, the Mac version lists Windows and Linux, but not Solaris versions: http://www.real.com/realplayer/mac : "Alternate Versions: Windows | Linux" It is not too complicated to figure this out, that the page to use is: http://www.real.com/realplayer/solaris The Real Media site identifies Solaris and X86 versions, but does not specify an OpenSolaris version at this time. My question is: Whom at Sun (then) or Oracle (now) is paying attention to this kind of thing? SMB sysadms like me get numbed answers from the tech support pits. It would seem to be low-cost marketing to keep track of at least some of the OpenSolaris/Solaris visibility issues at high-profile sites. At the least it would seem to be an opportunity for an engineer or marketing manager to have a conversation with a significant third party vendor. Notwithstanding that Oracle does not list "workstations" as a product category (not that there has been a true high-performance SPARC "workstation" (old-timers' meaning) for some time), Mr. Ellison's stated focus on both the thin-client, e.g., Sun Ray, and the unmentionable ephemera elsewhere known a cloud, suggests that the desktop still requires significant attention by Oracle. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
