Friday July 01, 2005
Friday July 01, 2005 Thought I'd share some of my favorite quotes about the Opening Day for OpenSolaris. There were, of course, many wonderful blogs on Opening Day and ever since. In the interest of space, I've selected just a few quotes that caught my eye. Can't believe more than 2 weeks have passed. If any of you see any radioactively passionate quotes about Opening Day that you think I would like (or that I should include in my "favorites" collection below), please let me know. I've been a bit distracted and I know I haven't found everything yet. Thanks. And here's a toast to tripped out geeks.
Sun deserves credit for the geek-centric approach, said RedMonk analyst Stephen O'Grady. "The best aspect of it for me is seeing a rather large software organization actually recognize the audience they want to be speaking to--in this case the developers."
- RedMonk analyst Stephen O'Grady in an interview with Stephen Shankland
"They've lit up the Open Solaris community inside Sun to light up the community outside Sun. You need to be a tripped-out geek to get some of this but the mobilization of the Sun team to provide different views on the product is great."
- Andy Lark, "Blogs play key role in launch of Open Solaris" blog entry
"A prolonged round of applause from this old geek! 43 years of programming, everything from vacuum tube computers to 'Transistorized' computers, mainframes, micros (4004 anyone?), and of course, the Mighty Sun! Please indicate a very positive reaction to the Open Solaris news!"
- billg@radix.net, mail to whatshappening@sun.com alias
"We predict, that in the long run, OpenSolaris will contribute more to the IT universe than Windows or GNU/Linux. It will take time, but backed up by a consistent corporate strategy, Java, the Sun Grid and a pantheon of bloggers, Sun is destined 'to boldly go where no one has gone before.' We are extremely proud to have be part of the OpenSolaris Pilot Project. To all our fellow Pilot Project participants and Sun: Salute!"
- Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck, OpenSolaris Pilot Members
"[The OpenSolaris launch] may also be a historic day for blogging. It's not a 'normal' product launch, that's for sure. Instead of launching OpenSolaris with a media splash, press releases and a carefully crafted message, the OpenSolaris crew has taken over blogs.sun.com and let the bloggers loose. They're blogging (blogs.sun.com and opensolaris.org) and tagging (technorati, del.icio.us and flickr) and chatting (#opensolaris at freenode.net) and badging and getting the word out in their own imaginative and personal ways. I'm proud to be even a small part of that and I can't wait to get my hands on the code."
- Dave Johnson, "Go OpenSolaris!" blog on his Blogging Roller page
"It was such a surprise when I logged onto the Sun Blog to find other nerds like myself wondering where the t-shirts were. Seems such trivia amongst such an historic annoucement. It takes all types to make a village....."
- antonypayne@yahoo.com, email to opensolaris-marketing@opensolaris.org
"You guys are too frickin? cool! A reply from a person. Novel. Thanks and good luck! ?D:)"
- djones@laga.com, email to whatshappening@sun.com alias
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