OpenSolaris in Japan
Seems there's a lot of Solaris in Japan these days. Check out Jonathan's
pink map. I'm not surprised one bit, actually.
Scott (as in Chairman McNealy) was here a few weeks ago, and he told us in a company meeting in Tokyo that Jonathan had sent him this map and how it was great to see Japan covered in Solaris. Scott spoke a lot about Solaris and OpenSolaris that night, as I recall. I stood up and told him that OpenSolaris is getting a lot of attention in Japan as well. Since we launched in June of 05, Tokyo is the number three city in the world for traffic hitting opensolaris.org, and Japan overall has been consistently number three behind the U.S. and the U.K. That's pretty remarkable considering the language issues here (which we have a plan to solve).
But sometimes it gets more interesting. In the month of December, Japan picked off the U.K. for the number two spot behind the U.S. In reality, Japan and the U.K. trade places frequently depending on how you cut the numbers, but overall it seems that there's a lot of interest in OpenSolaris here in Japan. Searches to the web forums are way up this month, too. Now, you may not hear about some of this stuff as you would with other regions of the world, but I've come to believe that that's simply part of the style here. Sometimes performance is more powerful when just ever so slightly understated. (That was so blatantly obvious when I was in Korea as well, by the way. Another fascinating place for OpenSolaris.) Even the Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), which is part of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), has recognized OpenSolaris (here, here). That's a pretty good recommendation to have, wouldn't you say?
Keep an eye on Japan. There are some things going on here that may surprise some people some day.
Scott (as in Chairman McNealy) was here a few weeks ago, and he told us in a company meeting in Tokyo that Jonathan had sent him this map and how it was great to see Japan covered in Solaris. Scott spoke a lot about Solaris and OpenSolaris that night, as I recall. I stood up and told him that OpenSolaris is getting a lot of attention in Japan as well. Since we launched in June of 05, Tokyo is the number three city in the world for traffic hitting opensolaris.org, and Japan overall has been consistently number three behind the U.S. and the U.K. That's pretty remarkable considering the language issues here (which we have a plan to solve).
But sometimes it gets more interesting. In the month of December, Japan picked off the U.K. for the number two spot behind the U.S. In reality, Japan and the U.K. trade places frequently depending on how you cut the numbers, but overall it seems that there's a lot of interest in OpenSolaris here in Japan. Searches to the web forums are way up this month, too. Now, you may not hear about some of this stuff as you would with other regions of the world, but I've come to believe that that's simply part of the style here. Sometimes performance is more powerful when just ever so slightly understated. (That was so blatantly obvious when I was in Korea as well, by the way. Another fascinating place for OpenSolaris.) Even the Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), which is part of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), has recognized OpenSolaris (here, here). That's a pretty good recommendation to have, wouldn't you say?
Keep an eye on Japan. There are some things going on here that may surprise some people some day.
Posted by jamey on December 30, 2006 at 06:00 AM JST #
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