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My name is Marion Vermazen. I worked at Sun Microsystems up until June 3, 2005. I worked on the IT aspects of Sun's work from anywhere program, iWork. I was also the team lead for the Java Desktop and Solaris 10 at Sun Change Acceptance team.

20050309 Wednesday March 09, 2005

Adding value to Solaris

I found Kathy Sierra's blog because of a link on James Governor's Monk Chips blog. But I really liked what she had to say in her Creating Passionate Users Blog about how successful products make it easy for others to add value to a product. She used the example of how hard it is to compete with the iPod because of all the add ons that have been created by others. At first I thought that this concept only applied to consumer products. But then I realized that in the case of an operating system like Solaris, drivers are a similar example. By making Solaris open source Sun has made it very easy for others to add value to Solaris. Hopefully as she suggests this leads to more passionate Solaris users.

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