The direction of our desktop is to get more developers developing for Solaris on Solaris. More tools. More languages. More things developers want. More things developers need.

For a sneek peek into some of the things we're working on, check out John Rice's Blog. Better yet, join the JDS community!

(You knew I was going to say that, right?)

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One year. Wow. It feels so much longer.

So much has happened over the past year. What's gone right? What's gone wrong? What blew me away? What depressed the hell out of me?

Well, what went right is that we started conversations, conversations with folks that have never talked to Sun before. We're going places we've never been. We've raised awareness. The biggest worry I had just before the launch was, what if nobody noticed or cared? Well, that certainly wasn't the case!

What went wrong? Not much actually. I credit that to our pilot program, the CAB, and all of our supporters out there. Of course, my fabulous team played a big part. They delivered -- and how.

Of course, I was hoping we would have the source code management solution up and running by now, but the transition is turning out to be harder than we thought. That's not a "gone wrong" thing, but a "hasn't happened as fast as I'd hoped" thing. Nevertheless, we're making good progress and the betas are up on our web site.

What blew me away? Winning the SIIA Codie Award for best open source solution. Our traction with universities have blown me away as well. Thirty-two universities are using OpenSolaris in their cirriculum. Five are Centers of Excellence.

What's depressed me? Well... nothing. (OK, there was this record rainfall in March that depressed the hell out of me, truth be told.)

Finally, I want to thank everyone out there that believes in OpenSolaris. We couldn't have done this alone.

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