[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris: Media Coverage Update #3

Wed Jun 15 19:24:09 PDT 2005

Wow, to date, 32 articles covering the "Opening Day" of OpenSolaris have 
appeared in publications including eWeek, InformationWeek, InfoWorld and 
CRN, stemming from 16 media briefings, the "Opening Day" teleconference 
and reaction to the blog entries on opensolaris.org. Analysts were 
quoted *16* times in OpenSolaris coverage, correlating with 15 analyst 
pre-briefings. All quotes contained a positive to neutral outlook on 
OpenSolaris.

Coverage of Sun's news has continued to be neutral to positive in tone. 
Of note, CNET News' Stephen Shankland has published *four* separate 
articles on the topic of OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 in the past three days.

Best,
Your OpenSolaris AR/PR team

**HEADLINES/SUMMARY**

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"Opening Day" for Sun's OpenSolaris
June 15, 2005, John Waters, Application Development Trends
http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=11317

Sun Microsystems officially released to open source the "lion's share" 
of its Solaris operating system source code-approximately five million 
lines, including the kernel, networking stack, libraries and commands 
for the Solaris 10 OS. The kernel includes features such as predictive 
self-healing and containers for isolating an application within the OS.

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OpenSolaris Community Opens for Business
June 14, 2005, Timothy Prickett Morgan, IT Jungle
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn061405-story01.html

After two years of much noise about how it would let go of the Solaris
operating system and give it to the IT community to do with it as it 
will, Sun Microsystems tried to stay out of the limelight as the 
OpenSolaris community launched itself with Sun's blessing and put out 
some 5 million lines of open source Unix code out there for people to 
play with as they saw fit. While this does not represent all of the 
Solaris code base, the launch of OpenSolaris does mark the beginning of 
a new development model for what was formerly Sun's Unix variant.

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Developers welcome open source Solaris
Juny 15, 2005, Tom Sanders, vnunet.com
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2137908/sun-invites-developers-solaris

Strong developer community vital now that source code is available

Sun Microsystems has officially released the source code for its Solaris 
10 operating system by launching the opensolaris.org website.

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OpenSolaris takes first steps
June 15, 2005, Jack Loftus, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_g
ci1098463,00.html

Forget the naysaying bloggers and the talk radio callers, it was opening 
day for Sun Solaris yesterday, and if the attitudes of company brass 
were any indication, opening up the source code was looking like nothing 
short of a home run.

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Sun modernizing Solaris start-up process
June 15, 2005, Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/Sun+modernizing+Solaris+start-up+process/2100-7344_3-574
8561.html

Sun Microsystems is revamping the start-up process for its Solaris 
operating system, scrapping an awkward, elderly approach for one the 
company promises will be faster, more familiar and more useful on a wide 
variety of computers.

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OpenSolaris: Solaris-Kernel und -Bibliotheken als Open Source
June 14, 2005, Oliver Lau, C'T/Heise.de
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/60600&wo
rds=OpenSolaris

Wie erwartet, hat der Server- und Unix-Spezialist Sun sein 
Betriebssystem OpenSolaris im Quelltext veröffentlicht. Damit stehen 
Kernel, einzelne Module und Bibliotheken ab sofort unter der in der 
Freie-Software-Gemeinde umstrittenen, aber von der Open Source 
Initiative (OSI) abgesegneten Community Development and Distribution 
License (CDDL) zur freien Verfügung. Wie von anderen Unix-Derivaten wie 
Linux, FreeBSD oder OpenBSD gewohnt, darf jedermann die Quellen 
kopieren, nach Belieben ändern und mit eigenem Code zusammenführen -- 
und unter der CDDL sogar als kommerzielles Produkt auf den Markt 
bringen, verspricht Sun. OpenSolaris soll auf allen 32-bittigen
Intel-Systemen sowie auf 64-Bit-Rechnern mit Intels EM64T oder
AMD64-Prozessoren laufen.

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Analysts: OpenSolaris Needs Time to Shine
June 14, 2005, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, eWEEK
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1828178,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

News Analysis: Competitors and analysts are waiting to see whether 
possible Linux challenger OpenSolaris will build enough of a community 
to change Sun's business future.

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Opening Day for Sun OpenSolaris Project includes blogger onslaught
July 14, 2005, Paul Krill, InfoWorld
http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/001466.html

Sun Microsystems unveiled a grouping of technologies as part of 
OpenSolaris, the open source version of the Solaris 10 operating system, 
and along with it, scores of blogs from developers involved in the project.

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Open source Sun 'should help VARs'
June 15, 2005, Guy Matthews, The Inquirer
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23957

OpenSolaris kicks off to modest channel applause

THE LAUNCH of Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris, the open source version of 
its Solaris OS, should be greeted as pretty good news by its reseller 
partners, say analysts.

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Sun opens its OpenSolaris operating system
June 15, 2005, Matt Whipp, PC Pro
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73869/sun-opens-its-opensolaris-operating-system
.html

Sun Microsystems officially unveiled its OpenSolaris operating system, 
based on Solaris 10 code.

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Sun releases Solaris code
June 15, 2005, Tectonic
http://www.tectonic.co.za/print.php?pid=481

The Register reports that Sun Microsystems yesterday released a healthy
portion of the Solaris source code to the community.

Sun first introduced the idea of an open source version of Solaris way 
back in 2000. Since then there has been a continuous to-and-fro from the 
company as it seemingly tried to make up its mind about these announced 
plans.

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Solaris engineers offer personal source-code tours
June 14, 2005, Stephen Shankland, ZDNet
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5746834.html

Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more
than 5 million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet on Tuesday.

The ambassadors are dozens of Sun programmers who published blog entries 
for the OpenSolaris launch, sharing personal stories from deep within 
the Solaris project. The firsthand accounts ranged from Liane Praza's 
first bug fix to Bryan Cantrill's "Sewer Tour" of some deeply buried 
Solaris plumbing.
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