[osol-mktg] Grass Roots Sun Studio Marketing Campaign

[Laura Ramsey]

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Laura Ramsey wrote:

>
> I love the idea, but want to make sure we are accurate...because Sun 
> Studio 11 isn't available for download from opensolaris.org (yet) and 
> we don't want to make anyone look "bad" because it's not there yet.
>
> Also, in addition to badges, and protestations of our love for 
> Studio...it would be GREAT to see some performance benchmarks. Studio 
> 10 drive over 30% system and application performance increases over 
> Studio 9 compilers. Maybe that is the next wave of content that would 
> back up your button campaign?
>
> LKR
>
>
> Laurent Blume wrote:
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>> Ben Rockwood wrote:
>>
>>> I love Sun Studio, but it isn't getting much love.  We needed to 
>>> save Studio from a certain death and making the product free 
>>> certainly does that.  Sun's done its part, now we, the community, 
>>> need to push a bit.  Studio isn't really marketed and just needs 
>>> some love and attention so I'm starting a little grass-roots 
>>> marketing campaign for Sun Studio 11.  The idea is to get people who 
>>> use and love Studio to say so.  Best and easiest way to do that is 
>>> to provide a web badge users can put on their sites/blogs/etc.  
>>> Check mine out in my blog (cuddletech.com/blog/).
>>>
>>> The image is here: http://www.cuddletech.com/img/choose_studio.png
>>>
>>> The messaging is simple and straight forward... I choose Sun Studio, 
>>> you can too.  To avoid stepping on any copyright or trademarks I'm 
>>> not using Sun logos, just simple and clean, which I think also 
>>> translate to authentic.
>>>
>>> Good idea?   Bad idea?  Either way, I'm going forward with it.  I'd 
>>> love to see people get on board as well and start using it.
>>
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>>
>> I believe it's a good idea, and I like the slogan, but black & white 
>> for the image is a bit, say, bare.
>>
>> Could Sun come out with a cool Studio logo, and banners to go with 
>> it, that could be used in the same way as OpenSolaris banners?
>>
>> I would love to see Studio used more, since it would help reduce the 
>> amount of GCC-only code around.
>>
>> Thanks for the idea!
>>
>> Laurent
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