Sun is releasing the Solaris operating system to the open source community.
It's this big Solaris 10 parade.
And we're all watching.
A marching band goes by. The drums are pounding out this beat that makes your insides go wobbly. And it's all about DTrace. And with the bits out there on opensolaris.org, it makes you want to get up off the curb and do a little happy dance.
(But the guy next to you is doing that. And you realize he looks a little silly. So you wisely refrain from indulging that impulse. )
And there are more bands coming. You can hear them. Solaris Containers; Solaris ZFS; Predictive Self-Healing; Total Linux interoperability; Blow-your-mind performance and it goes on and on.
Meanwhile we've got the bloggers. They're marching alongside the bands. And every once in a while they break stride and stomp out this bad-ass routine that rivets you. It captures all your attention. (And it's got them literally breaking into a sweat.)
We even have the establishment. The people who sit in the bleachers. The opinion makers and self-appointed "in-charge" crowd sitting behind the red velvet ropes giving their discrete little nods.
It's all about the Solaris operating system. It's all about opensolaris.org.
It's all about a development heralds a new era. A harbinger of what's to come. An advancement that will break certain laws of physics -- its echo will be louder than the initial noise it made.
OK... i gotta go...
there's this parade I want to watch.
:-)
mary