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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Brian Hammond wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Brian Hammond


Welcome, Brian.

I think the best way to start is to encourage your customers to get 
directly involved with the project and become a part of the community. 
That's what we are here for.

Your marketing contacts can follow this marketing list. And I understand 
that there will be a full marketing community proposed soon, so there 
will be ways of engaging with the OpenSolaris marketing community at 
that time. Also, there's an education list on this page: 
http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/, so maybe your research 
colleagues would find that helpful. And there are many other lists in 
which the engineers at your customers can participate.

I completely agree about your statement about users. Remember, this 
project is only two months old, so we are very much in our infancy. As 
we grow and as more parts of Solaris are opened, I think we'll diversify 
a great deal. Even now, some of the most active conversations are about 
desktops. We'll get there ... :)

Jim G.
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