Erwin's StarOffice Tango

The pregnancy is over
The pregnancy is finally over! A new baby is born! And look how cute it is! ;-)

Yes, I'm talking about OpenSolaris. My wife would most likely kill me if I was talking about my baby, because she for sure knows that she herself has not been pregnant over the last few months.

Today, on June 14, the OpenSolaris project came to real life. Now that it's out in the beautiful but tough world, it will have to face many challenges. However, I'm convinced that the pilot project members together with the Sun engineers will help this baby grow up. Soon it will learn to crawl, then to walk and eventually run.

I'm also convinced that the OpenSolaris parents will have to deal with difficult decisions in the future. Once the OpenSolaris project becomes a teenager, it will want to be treated like a grown up, and not like the little kid it used to be.

Sun has learned a lot from all the different open source projects that it is involved in. I myself am working on the OpenOffice.org project. Yes, in the past, Sun has made many small and big mistakes regarding OpenOffice.org. The same happens within a family where people say or do things that they do not really mean.

Nevertheless, I'm convinced that all of "Sun's" open source projects will converge towards something great and successful. Yes, most definitely there will be more arguments, misunderstandings, fights, and tears. However, in the end, we all will be one happy family.

I at least welcome my little brother (sister?) in the larger open source family! I'm proud to be a relative of this little guy! Happy birthday!
( Jun 15 2005, 08:06:12 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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<em>Yes, in the past, Sun has made many small and big mistakes regarding OpenOffice.org.</em>

Don't forget JDS ;) I think Sun need something like a 'spirit management' since knowledge management doesn't really transmit the spirit of the original (ex-employees) to the new ones.

Gesendet von Jza am Juni 15, 2005 at 02:44 PM CEST #

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