[advocacy-discuss] I was thinking...

[Uros Nedic]

  ...why SUN, as a global corporation when decided to go to the market of
operating systems
for personal computers, laptops, nettops, netbooks, etc., did not make some
contacts with
Adobe, Autodesk, Wolfram Research and other software vendors to ask them for
porting their
commercial software to OpenSolaris?

  I think it will be great bias for people to use OpenSolaris. Maybe, SUN
should offer them
to sponsor part of porting costs. It will be good investment for the future.

  Also, it will be good for SUN, to establish stable lifecycle of
OpenSolaris (Indiana). It
has been showed as an good thing to attract more users. Maybe I mentioned it
before.

  And for the end of this letter - last observation. Here, we will develop
drivers for existing
and old devices, but also, SUN should approach big hardware vendors (at
least!), and agree
with them driver support for their future hardware products. As time pass,
smaller hardware
vendors will start to write drivers for OpenSolaris without asking them to
do, because
market share of OpenSolaris will be bigger. But, initial movements has to be
done by SUN.
This should be looked also as investment for future.

Regards,
Uros Nedic, Leader of RS-OSUG
MSc in Electrical Engineering
Dep. of Telecommunications
Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia