The Linux UI that has fooled the experts



We at Sun have run across the blog for Akkana Peck who provided a summary of LinuxWorld 2004 in which she states:

"I did my usual quick survey of which of the big booths were running linux in their booth. Oracle and Redhat were clear winners, with no definite Windows boxes (a few in each case which were running full screen presentation software so I couldn't tell what the OS was). Sun was the worst, with only one Linux box I saw, and the rest all Windows: no Solaris that I saw.."

Boy was she fooled. All the demos in Sun's booth (and there were lots of them) were running either Solaris or Linux. Oh, there was probably a Windows box or two to demonstrate interoperability, but nearly all of the demoes were running the Java Desktop System on Linux or Solaris. How could Akkana have been so wrong?

Keep in mind that JDS is designed to be "familiar" to Windows users. If you look at this photo from the Sun booth at LinuxWorld, you'll see numerous monitors with what might look to the untrained eye like Windows. Nope - all JDS!

Thanks Akkana for validating that we've hit the mark with our UI!

Posted on: Aug 09, 2004

Posted by: dbaigent

Category: JDS

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Comments:

excellent blog. the *truth* will set them free.

Posted by gonzo on August 09, 2004 at 02:46 PM PDT #

I guess we are pretty successful at making JDS "familiar", at least in the abstract.

Posted by John Clingan on August 09, 2004 at 04:28 PM PDT #

Akkana is a woman. Used to work on Mozilla at Netscape. Her hubby, Jeff is a ex-Sun employee. Make sure you have all the facts before you post. Oops, wasn't that the point of your post?

Posted by Anonymous on August 09, 2004 at 04:31 PM PDT #

> Akkana is a woman. Used to work on Mozilla at Netscape. Her hubby, Jeff is a ex-Sun employee. Make sure you have all the facts before you post. Oops, wasn't that the point of your post? What does her gender and who she's married to have anything to do with the blog post???

Posted by Augusto on August 09, 2004 at 05:54 PM PDT #

Dan, Why don't you make a comment in her blog by capturing the output of ps -fe on the desktop to amaze her :)

Posted by Ghee on August 10, 2004 at 01:55 AM PDT #

The story is about an interesting fact: Linux is indistinguishable from MS Windows at the first glance, that is, in its user interface. Paired with the size and memory and CPU appetite of modern Linux distributions -- and with bugginess of them, too, it really poses a question: is Linux distinguishable from Windows in any respect valuable for either a casual user or a software engineer? In my opinion, the only difference in the today's world brought by Linux's wide adoption is the need to support two buggy OSes for Intel PCs instead of one.

Posted by David Tolpin on August 10, 2004 at 11:23 AM PDT #

how about this angle ... i argue the subscription-based low cost model of jds, which runs on multiple platforms, is way more compelling then any technical feature alone, freeing up companies to re-invest that saved $$$ into more sophisticated infrastructure.

Posted by gonzo on August 10, 2004 at 02:42 PM PDT #

David Tolpin wrote:

"In my opinion, the only difference in the today's world brought by Linux's wide adoption [sic] is the need to support two buggy OSes for Intel PCs instead of one."

[begin sarcasm]:

Isn't that what "choice" is all about? A lemon from Ford vs. a lemon from GM? The lesser of two evils in the American Presidential Election?

[end sarcasm]

Posted by Dan Baigent on August 10, 2004 at 03:33 PM PDT #

Your UI target was to make JDS look like Windows?

Posted by Sriram on August 10, 2004 at 06:01 PM PDT #

Sriram wrote:

"Your UI target was to make JDS look like Windows?"

JDS is designed to be an enterprise desktop. The enterprise market is very concerned about the costs of moving from one platform to another. Making JDS familiar to Windows users and providing facilities that resemble similar functions in Win 9x/NT/XP and interoperate with Windows environments is critical to acceptance of the product in the market.

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