Now What?
Check out this article from NewFactor Network -- Sun
Releases Open Source Details -- Now What?
Now what? Simple. Well, we keep building the OpenSolaris community, that's what. Just as we had planned all along. But there's no mention of the Solaris community in this article, which I find odd considering that's what we've been talking about all year long -- building an open source community of Solaris developers.
Under the subhead of "If They Build it Will They Come" we find this about OpenSolaris:
Pssst ... guys ... this is the OpenSolaris community we're building here. OpenSolaris. Not clear? Ok, try this. Look at the Solaris market. Just take a snapshot. Now, imagine all those developers, system administrators, customers, partners, and power users from all of our markets around the world. The whole crew. Now, just imagine all those guys as the basis of the OpenSolaris community. That's it. Stop there. That's the only perspective from which you can understand what we are doing here. Anything else will disappoint you. We are turning the Solaris "market" into a Solaris "community." That community is already talented, it will help improve the Solaris platform, and it will grow based on the quality of the code and the innovation an open project naturally enables..
Regarding that marketing bit ... oh, goodness, no! Please no more marketing campaigns! I can't take it! If Sun does Cluetrain marketing, ok, I'm fine. That would be cool, actually. If not, they'll just make a mess of things. Developers know this, though, so I'm not really concerned. All kidding aside, though, the point is well taken -- Sun is arguably the leader in open source but is still not recognized as such. You can't kick marketing for that entirely. That's the fault of the entire company, not just one department. All of us at every level have to engage with the community and realize that we are part of a community business model now. It's pure opportunity.
Technorati Tag: OpenSolaris
Now what? Simple. Well, we keep building the OpenSolaris community, that's what. Just as we had planned all along. But there's no mention of the Solaris community in this article, which I find odd considering that's what we've been talking about all year long -- building an open source community of Solaris developers.
Under the subhead of "If They Build it Will They Come" we find this about OpenSolaris:
But
will the Linux community bite? Does open
source Solaris have the mind share
potential to tempt enough Linux developers to start dabbling in its
code and possibly realign in Sun's direction?
...
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio tells NewsFactor. "Sun will have to launch a tremendous marketing campaign to convince people they are a player in open source," she says. "They will have to find a way to reverse that trend and recast themselves in the image of an open source provider since that is not the first thing people think about when they think about Sun."
...
IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky, for one, does not believe Sun will be able to stem the momentum established by Linux. "Some developers may be enticed to take a closer look at Solaris, but I doubt it will attract the mainstream Linux developers," he said.
...
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio tells NewsFactor. "Sun will have to launch a tremendous marketing campaign to convince people they are a player in open source," she says. "They will have to find a way to reverse that trend and recast themselves in the image of an open source provider since that is not the first thing people think about when they think about Sun."
...
IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky, for one, does not believe Sun will be able to stem the momentum established by Linux. "Some developers may be enticed to take a closer look at Solaris, but I doubt it will attract the mainstream Linux developers," he said.
Pssst ... guys ... this is the OpenSolaris community we're building here. OpenSolaris. Not clear? Ok, try this. Look at the Solaris market. Just take a snapshot. Now, imagine all those developers, system administrators, customers, partners, and power users from all of our markets around the world. The whole crew. Now, just imagine all those guys as the basis of the OpenSolaris community. That's it. Stop there. That's the only perspective from which you can understand what we are doing here. Anything else will disappoint you. We are turning the Solaris "market" into a Solaris "community." That community is already talented, it will help improve the Solaris platform, and it will grow based on the quality of the code and the innovation an open project naturally enables..
Regarding that marketing bit ... oh, goodness, no! Please no more marketing campaigns! I can't take it! If Sun does Cluetrain marketing, ok, I'm fine. That would be cool, actually. If not, they'll just make a mess of things. Developers know this, though, so I'm not really concerned. All kidding aside, though, the point is well taken -- Sun is arguably the leader in open source but is still not recognized as such. You can't kick marketing for that entirely. That's the fault of the entire company, not just one department. All of us at every level have to engage with the community and realize that we are part of a community business model now. It's pure opportunity.
Technorati Tag: OpenSolaris
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And believe me, there are a lot of us who really would love to help you.
Alan.
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Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx (rev 02),
PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP),
ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04),
SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller,
IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE],
Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91),
RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02),
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R200 BB [Radeon All in Wonder 8500DV],
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(I omit firewire, USB and sound for now).
My harddisk is no SATA. Besides the VGA card there is another ethernet card (National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815). I have 512 MB RAM and a i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz. That's it.
Linux runs fine, as does FreeBSD. As I mentioned the Solaris boot disk presents me the "Aolaris primary boot subsystem v2.0" and then the machine halts. My guess is that the problem has to do with my SiS controllers, but it is only a guess. You kernel gurus know better ;-) A valid email address in case anybody would like to contact me is alea101@postmaster.co.uk.
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