Friday February 25, 2005

Moving Sun to Solaris 10

We have started a very aggressive plan to roll out Solaris 10 across the approximately 1600 servers we have world wide. Obviously it is to Sun's advantage to demonstrate how quickly and painlessly we can do this. A key part of our strategy is to put in place a very strong change acceptance program (CAP).

In our CAP team meeting this afternoon we talked about our vision for the transition. It includes some of the following components.
Our roll out strategy is intentionally aggressive.
Executive communications to the Sun user base will emphasize the need to be aggressive in our roll out plans. Focused leadership will dramatically help our CAP efforts.
All applications will not have been tested before the Solaris 10 /JDS roll out. We will have excellent options and support in place to make sure all users can run the applications they need to.
We will have a clear and well understood mechanism in place for people to report problems and get answers.
Support will be outstanding. Our support organization will have extensive training.
The SA community will be well informed and active supporters of the success of Solaris 10.
We will use aggressive methods to get answers to people.
User will recognize the move to Solaris 10 is part of a continuum which started with the move to JDS preview.
We will be supporting Sun's success by demonstrating what a great O/S Solaris is.

We have a lot to do to make our vision a reality but having a clear shared future state (vision) is the first step.