[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Richard L. Hamilton]

> this is a classic request of Solaris Marketing, "here
> is the ammunition 
> to make the case that a port of your application has
> market value". In 
> the old days of the catalyst books and big tar balls
> it was relatively 
> easy to get Third Party Software Vendors to port, now
> the additional 
> issues of packaging and repositories make the
> argument harder, unless 
> pkg.opensolaris.org is willing to make a available
> for free a home for 
> applications that have cost associated...
[...]

Technical assistance with packaging and porting, and something similar
to an apps store (but with a cut for the operator only large
enough to recover costs of operating the site and providing
the packaging/porting assistance, at least initially), would IMO go a long
way towards making modern commercial application distribution
more attractive.

Of course, an application pricing model that didn't make apps for
[Open]Solaris 10x more expensive than Windows apps would also
help.  Anymore, _nobody_, not businesses and not individuals, wants
to pay crazy prices like that even for hardware, let alone software.
(support costs are a different story - if someone needs 5 9s, they're
going to have to expect to pay for it)
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