[advocacy-discuss] Changes out there?

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
> Fiona Duan wrote:
>> Yes, most of them are students. The web site is located at South China
>> University of Technology and belongs to the  China Education and
>> Research Network (CERNET), with connection to the public network in China.
>>
>> I contacted with Vincent Ding who maintains this portal and asked for
>> the numbers, he clarified that it should be "90 thousand" click, the
>> real download number is lower than this. However, it is still nice work.
>>
>
> Yah, getting perfect numbers is difficult. The point is that our stuff
> is now making it into the hands of a very large number of young people
> in a rapidly expanding market. That's so cool. I guess it was worth it
> to ship OpenSolaris 2008.05 with dozens and dozens of languages, eh? :)
> I have to check with the Sun engineers here in Japan because I had heard
> that some guys were interested in putting up some community mirrors here
> in Tokyo. Good stuff  ...

   Even if a 10th of the 90K start using OpenSolaris, that is a large mindshare
   to begin with.

Regards,
Moinak.

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