[advocacy-discuss] General Branding Experience for Indiana

[Jim Grisanzio]

David Lloyd wrote:
> Brandorr,
> 
>> Did I miss something? Did we even figure out what the Indiana Brand is
>> yet? (e.g. Does it have a name, logo, etc?)
> 
> I don't know what Indiana is meant to represent; I'm quite happy with 
> SXCE myself. Indiana is something that may as well start with Ian whose 
> second part stars with D.
> 
> Other than that snide remark, I'm watching it closely.
> 
> In other words:
> 
> * Why should I, happy SXCE user, use Indiana instead of SXCE


I think you'll probably have a bit more flexibility in the long run.


> I don't know until it appears.
> 
> And will I, end user, choose the instability of Indiana versus the 
> proven stability of Solaris and its Nevada releases?


It's your choice, though. That's part of the point here. We want to 
reach out and build a bigger and more diverse developer community. 
OpenSolaris is growing, that's all.

And I doubt that we are shooting for /instability/ vs /stability/ here, 
but I think it's probably more accurate to say that Solaris will be more 
stable (tested, supported, whatever) for big corporate implementations.


> If I wanted a desktop OS that's open source I'd choose Ubuntu.


Why not help move OpenSolaris to the desktop as well? We obviously have 
every intention of going there, so why would you choose Ubuntu if that's 
where OpenSolaris is heading as well? Nothing wrong with Ubuntu, I 
suppose, but I'm just wondering why you wouldn't want OpenSolaris as 
your main desktop or laptop and have it be /better/ than Ubuntu?


> Apart from Hype, what does Indiana deliver me?

A lot of people thought OpenSolaris itself was hype a few yeas ago, too. 
And, yes, we did hype the darn thing, but it turned into reality -- just 
as we said it would.


Jim
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