Week One Summary

My first week leading the Solaris marketing organization went by in a flash, so if I ask someone on my team to repeat something next week, please excuse me. I thought I would share some of the things I learned.

Did you know that...

  • You probably knew that you could download Solaris 10 for free, but did you know you could order a free Solaris Starter Kit. There are actually two version of the starter kit, one with Solaris 10 and our NetBeans and Sun Studio Developer tools, another with Solaris Express Developer Edition, based on a recent build of OpenSolaris source code.
  • There are a number of ways to get developer support for Solaris Express Developer Edition, from community forums to $49 per incident support to a $249 1 year unlimited subscription. This support is intended for developers, not for production use. Yes, I know that some of you like features in the Solaris Express Developer Edition so much you would like to use it in production, with Sun support, versus Solaris 10. Stay tuned, we are looking at this.
  • If you really want to try out the absolute latest OpenSolaris source code, try downloading Solaris Express Community Edition, which is updated every other Friday. This version is unsupported. As was commented in one of my earlier blogs, we could clean up our naming scheme a bit.
  • Sun offers web based Solaris 10 training. Everything from free webinars to full web-based versions of many of our classroom based courses. Better yet, if you are a student and your institution has signed up for the Sun Academic Initiative you can take most of our web based courses free of charge. We sure didn't have that option when I was taking my Operating Systems 101 class.
  • Sun's Campus Ambassador program this year has over 180 students working to share Sun's developer technologies, from NetBeans to OpenSolaris with their classmates. This is the second year of the program, which started last year with about 50 ambassadors, and it has been so successful we are looking to significantly increase the program once again next year.
  • Back from Spring break and bored already, check out Temple of The Sun for a chance to win $5000 with your programming skills.

    That is it for now. I'm off to Korea and China for a week.

    • Posted on: Apr 15, 2007

    Posted by: marchamilton

    Category: General

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    Comments:

    Speaking of free Solaris kits - http://get.opensolaris.org/ doesn't seem to deliver - if for some reason you've got delivery problems or want to hold off for build 62, then please let people know - all it takes is an email... As for the Temple of The Sun game, it works perfectly fine on windows but fails miserably on solaris x86.

    Posted by Mads on April 15, 2007 at 10:31 AM PDT #

    DVD arrived today - apparently complaining did work :)

    Posted by Mads on April 16, 2007 at 12:32 PM PDT #

    Mads, Glad your DVD arrived, we use a 3rd party vendor to ship the DVDs and it can take several weeks. As far as Temple of The Sun not working on Solaris, let me check with our development group that is sponsoring the contest and get back to you.

    Posted by Marc Hamilton on April 16, 2007 at 02:45 PM PDT #

    Here is what the Temple of the Sun team had to say, "We've heard of the problem before. It's either that the user needs to upgrade their Flash player or that their using a version of Mozilla that is not compatible. Firefox works fine. It's not an issue with the game or with Solaris. It's an issue of using old drivers on Solaris. " I tried it out using the latest using Solaris Express Developer Edition. Hopefully now that you have received your DVD you can use the game.

    Posted by Marc Hamilton on April 16, 2007 at 11:40 PM PDT #

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