Wednesday September 21, 2005
Wednesday September 21, 2005 Props from Mike Eisler to OpenSolaris
Wow. Mike Eisler, a talented senior software engineer who works on all things NFS for Network Appliance, has some very positive things to say about the OpenSolaris community and website in a blog titled, opensolaris.org: the Future of Open Source Communities?
Kudos to members of the OpenSolaris community - all of you - for helping to create a place where people can share and collaborate and make things happen. There is some great community building in action happening over on OpenSolaris.org - and it's great to see this kind of pat on the back. Keep up the good work, folks.
Here are some excerpts from Mike's blog entry. (Still, I encourage all of you to read his entire blog. He's a good writer. And he's smart. Check it out.)
"One, like conventional open source, the world outside of Sun now has direct, and early (i.e. before first customer ship) visibility into what is going on. "
"Two, unlike many large open source projects, the information for getting that visibility is well organized. "
"This is revolutionary: as an employee of another NFS server vendor I could influence the design and implementation of an important NFS client without having to wait for our mutual customers to file a trouble ticket."
"But I think the bigger point is that because Sun has made opensolaris.org so easy to navigate, so easy participate in, and so open to "outsiders", (not to mention flame free), those "outsiders" are going to find that they get much more leverage with OpenSolaris than with other open operating systems."
"Whether this higher leverage translates into increased market share for OpenSolaris versus other open source kernels remains to be seen. But the design and execution of opensolaris.org may represent the future of open source communities."
Thanks, Mike. I really appreciate your good words.
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