Bill Moffitt's Weblog

Thursday March 03, 2005

Finally, it's out... Well, it has been a long time since I have been able to make an entry - a lot of long days and nights lately getting all the miscellaneous loose ends pulled together so Solaris 10 could make its triumphant entrance. Between the changes in the product itself and the rapidly-shifting business model, it was not a trivial task to get all the ancillary pieces (web presence, download site, registration, field training, OEM program, etc.) together and moving at once.

But the result is worth it - seeing the press coverage (a recent example), the comments in blogs, slashdot (I liked this one; starts out with a stupid troll and ends up with some good points before disappearing into stupidness again), and, most importantly, the nearly million registered systems already is extraordinarily gratifying.

My job, of course, isn't building the product - that's the job of the real geniuses in the next building, from the big technical brains to the organizational folks like Meggie Chen who actually drive the process of turning a bunch of code into a working OS. My job is to do all the work around the product to make sure that people know about it, understand why it's worthwhile evaluating, and can get it as easily as possible.

So I am very happy that Solaris 10 has come roaring out of the gate - it's a great technical achievment, and I am glad to have been a part of making it as successful as it is.

While there's a lot left to do, I think that the release of Solaris 10 and the imminent arrival of OpenSolaris has Solaris very well-positioned for the future. I won't speculate on the future of Solaris vis-a-vis Linux (I run 'em both and I like 'em both), but I think it's time for me to do something different.

Stay tuned.
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