[osol-mktg] Calling all bloggers!

[Dennis Clarke]

On 12/5/05, Laura Ramsey <Laura.Ramsey at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Well, my perspective is:
>
> PUBLISH!

absolutely ...

> information is the most powerful community weapon we have to build our
> reputation.
> Once we establish a reputation as the ultimate source of extraordinary
> content that is not only factual and informative, but delights and
> entertains...then readers will automatically begin to come to our
> community for "counter perspective".

>
> Also, an article series would be wonderful. Maybe we figure out a way to
> promote articles like we do the presentations?

I am doing "my own thing" out here at Blastwave.and one of those
things is looking at a small business migration costs that happens to
include IBM/Lotus Domino in it.  I have been looking at the FUD from
Novell and Red Hat and pricing up their offers on the same hardware
that I would run Solaris.  I am also looking at the need for a Sparc
based server for Domino ( because the IBM'ers are afraid of the stable
nature of Solaris in x86 I guess ) because there still is no version
for Solaris x86.  They dropped that years ago.

So the costs are piling up as is the lies.  Big ones like Red Hat
offers a version of RHEL for POWER but not for Sparc because the Sparc
platform is closed and proprietary but POWER is not?  Please.

OpenSolaris on POWER will fix that but the applications ( like Oracle
and Domino ) will still be needed.

The final migration is to get users away from Domino and towards JES
and its brethren but I really don't see 15 years of application
infrastructure moving for a small company or Chrysler anytime soon.

So .. I am pricing up the costs and the efforts required.

Dennis
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