[indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Any chance you can get your mail client to wrap your mails at 80 odd columns? - 
either that, or Thunderbird is hopelessly confused for me ;)

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> I must admit that this is where I am getting so hopelessly confused: To achiece the things you described, I can do it myself--there is no need for Indiana (thou not on the Solaris platform), and indeed there are tons of other Linux developers who can do a better job than I. As such, I am also puzzled by the conspicuously missing of links (i.e., mentionings) to Sun and Solaris. There is a quite significant number of us who came to this forum because of Sun. While I can't help keeping making a fool of myself, most of us are silent observers. And I also don't understand why we should be so obsessed in trying so hard to develop a platform for, say, RoR developers. Do we have any idea how many of them will come, if any, even if we pledge to give them our first-born sons?

I think we need to start making external software much more available. Who wants 
to have to go to the trouble of downloading a tarball, setting up a build 
environment, building that piece of software and installing it? People generally 
want to download a binary package and have it work out of the box, so they can 
actually get on with what they want to do. Ruby devs are an easy example to 
point out, but it could as equally be Java ones.

> I have always thought Indiana is very significant because it will be a legally-redistributable CDDL-based Solaris supported by a reputable heavyweight vendor (i.e., Sun). The term “Solaris” is significant because it combines both maturity/stability and emerging technologies for an adoption-led market environment. “CDDL” is significant because it allows hardware vendors to have their proprietary drivers (oftentimes, rightly or wrongly, they consider hardware specs their main asset) conveniently incorporated into the kernel. Finally, “Sun” is significant because it allows independent vendors who may be interested in jumping onto the Indiana wagon to, at least initially, shed their market scalability concern (i.e., if I become too big too quick, I can always try to talk to “Sun”) and link their services with many of Sun's other offerings (hardware, Java, storage, virturalization, MySQL, etc., etc.)

Yep, agree - 'best of both worlds'.


Glynn