[osol-mktg] 10 most important things about OpenSolaris

[Dennis Clarke]

On 10/6/05, Ben Rockwood <benr at cuddletech.com> wrote:
> Laura Ramsey wrote:
> > ( Cross posting to opensolaris marketing alias )
> >
>
> Thats a tough one...  witty and wise in 5 things during the time it
> takes to mix a drink?  (Which is hard because I refuse to drink mixed
> drinks... too wimpy.)
>
> Here's a stab:
>
> 1) OpenSolaris & Solaris10 is bringing innovation to the UNIX world that
> we should have had 20 years ago.

Most Linux people turn off at this point.  If the booze is free then
you have a chance but from what I have seen the Linux types roll their
eyes and say "sure what-ever".

> 2) F**k UNIX-like... Run the real thing.

The booze had better be free at this point.

> 3) If Sun had open sourced SunOS/Solaris in 1990 Linux wouldn't exist.

By this point you stand alone muttering to a plant in the corner.

How about this :

(1) its free.  like as in while I pour you this drink you can go
download real Solaris
and install it if you want and it has the power of a freight train. 
Oh and you can
get the source code also.

I know that I use this "freight train" thing way too often but its
bloody true.

(2) you can build the latest rev yourself by following some simple steps.

(3) it runs like a gazelle that just spotted a lion.  Really, no way,
it rocks for
    power.  More important is that you can grab some old box and install it.

  see : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/sol10/book.html
      its a work in progress

(4) Sun isn't Sun anymore.  They're Sun now.  You don't need a million bucks
    to get someone to listen to you.  They have rockin' fast hardware for like
    half the price of clunkers from Dell.

    Yes that is on x86.  64-bit AMD Opteron actually.

     And Sun still has a really big lab and smart guys that do real
research and
    they create these really cool chips and SunRay things that allow you to put
    a computer where there isn't any and it doesn't need a hard drive
or anything.

(5) There is a large community of people that will be there to help
you and get you
    started.  You can join up at OpenSolaris.org and drop in on old
and well established
    mail lists and be a complete fall on your face newbie.  No one
will hack on you
    ( not much ) and you can just do what you want to get up and running.


but this is targetted at someone that is fairly open minded anyways. 
I have recently tried to explain to a telco company that they really
don't need to install Windows 2003 and Exchange to get basic email
services.

morons ...

Maybe we need to really get the word out without being subtle :

    http://www.blastwave.org/

Dennis
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