Wednesday April 13, 2005 USENIX '05, all are welcome to attend our BOF
Please come and join us at the BOF tonight (Wed.), all are welcome wether you're an attendee of USENIX or not, there is nobody checking and we welcome all to attend.
As several others have posted, we had a great turnout last night with 80-100 attendees and there we gave away plenty of swag ($#!T we all get), as well as providing free drinks. I think there were some skeptics in the audience that were definitely convinced that Sun is serious about Solaris and were surprised to see how much improvement has gone into Solaris 10.
To quote one of the attendees, "I've listened to Jonathan Schwartz but wasn't convinced to use Solaris. However, hearing it straight from the engineers is very convincing and you've now got me to want to use it". The general feedback was that people were happy to see honesty from the engineers and there was a great appreciation for the work that was put into the BOF and what the engineers are doing to help Sun.
Much thanks go to Dan Price, Liane Praza, Bart Smaalders, Matt Ingenthron, John Clingan, and several other Sun folks that were speaking at USENIX, but most of all thanks to all of you who showed up and showed us your enthusiasm to the wonderful product that engineering worked on which is knows as Solaris 10. This product truely kicks @$$, and I'm proud to say that!
I have pictures I'll post as soon as I can get a compact flash to USB adapter to get them out of my camera.
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