[osol-mktg] Solaris For Home Users

[Seon Cort]

i usually don't have much to say, but the idea that too many cooks can spoil that broth has gotten the best of linux. currently there are hundreds of distribution and every last one seems intent on making a fool out of those that may consider switching from windows.

in contrast there is only one solaris, which brings me to my point: have you considered making this os available to the average home user for a nominal fee of say $12/year thats $1/month. for that they'd get updates when ever they start their web browser.  making this the cheapest and best investment ever. even penny pinchers will agree when you break it down. a free os plus ten years of support for $120/decade or a dollar a month for the rest of your life compare to windows' $169 for an os that is not supported for more than four-five years.

given that most people use the internet for general browsing, chatting and may type a document or two. it would be a spectacular idea to bundle the os with openoffice and mozilla's firefox. plus there has to be support for things like usb, cameras, ipods etc.

note, with this new windows vista, hundreds/millions of customers are going to be screwed when they find out that they can't upgrade or use the hardware they still have? this could be a "window" of opportunity for such a solaris. 

and about that solaris version thing. no more version numbers. just one solaris, always up to date, always running, you'd almost never know its there?

oh and your website has too much information on it. the useful stuff is hidden under tons of not so useful stuff. too much info on one page, i get tired of looking at the page two seconds after it pops up.

i really would like your feed back and hope that you are not too arrogant to take the time to consider what i have said or at least pass it onto someone in sun who would. 

stay sweet,
seon

ps: and with solaris' stability you can even tout the fact we'd be moving into a world with out the need for anti viruses and data loss due to crashes. do you understand what i am trying to say? 

i want solaris as a big zip file, download it to my computer, unzip the file, burn it to a cd, shutdown my computer, insert the cd restart, and type the word setup, turn off the monitor and go to the park. then i want to come back home provide the instructions on how i connect to the internet. i will then sign up for the $1 dollar a month live update thing. i must never again have to fiddle around with my pc, worry about security and all of the other mess. it must go on line and download all of the necessary updates etc. i am not a programmer, i am a customer service agent, i just want to turn it on, send an email, browse the internet, do some shopping, pay my bill, not worry about viruses, not worry about updates, turn it off and go back to my family in that beautiful park. can this be done? and no more version numbers. can i get some feed back people, please!
 
 
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