[osol-mktg] How do users/ISVs use opensolaris?

[Rich Teer]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brian Hammond wrote:

> I am in Sun GSO, Global Education & Research LOB. We have a lot of interest
> in OpenSolaris from customers who want to use it, and ISVs that want to
> support it. But I don't see that we have any mechanism for doing this, since
> there is no official opensolaris distribution.

That's correct there isn't (at ;east currently) an "official" distro.
My guess is that like the Linux market place, users and ISVs will pick
the top N distros and support/use those.  Presently there are two
OpenSolaris "distros": Solaris Express and ShilliX.  Which is much the
same as Linux in that there isn't an official Linux distro (though
RedHat et al might have something to say about that!).

> Any ideas? I think it is important to populate the open solaris ecosystems with
> applications and users, not just developers, in the same way that Linux has done.

I agree.  IIRC, at the CAB meeting in Portland last week we kicked
around the idea of having an "official" distro as a longer term goal.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

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