[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [install-discuss] About Solaris (mistakes) and future

[UNIX admin]

> Yeah, the use of 'JDS' is rather unfortunate, and
> something that we're moving
> slowly away from. Unfortunate also, that it's in just
> about everything we've
> touched over the last couple of years, so it's going
> to be a slow progressive
> move [eg. not that easy to entirely move
> os/project/jds to something else, as
> much as we'd all like].

I've been a Solaris user / sysadmin / Sun customer since many years. And in all these years, I still have the impression that Sun's marketing so totally *does not get* Solaris. They don't dig it. The marketing campaigns have been one flop after another for at least as long as I've been involved with Solaris, and that's some 12+ years.

The best marketing for Sun and Solaris so far came from not marketing -- but Solaris engineers and their blogs!!!

That's an important piece of information, and an even more important lesson. Maybe customers are sick and tired of Sun's marketing strategy; maybe they want to hear what the engineers have to say, and not marketing "interpretations".

"Java Desktop System". You've got to be kidding me!
 
 
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