[osol-mktg] OpenSolairis a choice for the government desktop? // Re: [osol-discuss] KDE, GNOME, etc.

[Felix Schulte]

On 12/18/05, Bill Rushmore <rushmore8 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:02, Gary Gendel wrote:
> > Anyway, Linus has just opened another can of worms that directly effects OpenSolaris and JDS.
>
> I really don't see how this effects JDS or OpenSolaris.  It just one
> guy's opinion not some edict from above.
Sun's choice of only shipping Gnome has serious impact for the
(Open)Solaris acceptance.
Just one example: In Germany KDE is the the de facto standard for the
government open source desktop and the decision makers here feel
SERIOUSLY PISSED OFF (apologies for the strong language, but this is
how the people feel who are currently doing the MS-Windows-To-Linux
transition in the German parliament) by Sun's attempt to sell them
Gnome instead. Sun would be in a much better position if KDE would be
an officially supported desktop choice - and as long as Sun does not
offer it it will not get much more desktop installations in the German
government (that's why Suse Linux got most of the cake).

Other european contries also KDE as primiary desktop and I don't see
how Solaris can get a better acceptance as long KDE is not supported.
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