[osol-mktg] 5 most important things....for Anniversary....

[Jim Grisanzio]

Some suggestions ....


Laura Ramsey wrote:

>> 1--Sun has open sourced the Solaris Operating System, and Solaris is 
>> now an open source operating system


Last year, Sun began the process of opening the source for the Solaris 
Operating System.


>> 2--OpenSolaris is an open source project, a source base, a community, 
>> a website – NOT a distribution


OpenSolaris is a source community from which distributions can be built.


>> 3--New releases of Solaris are built from portions of the OpenSolaris 
>> code base--Solaris is a fully tested, and supported distribution of 
>> OpenSolaris source code.


Solaris is Sun's supported distribution of the OpenSolaris source code.


>> 4--OpenSolaris contains source code for the major innovations in 
>> Solaris 10 – things like DTrace, Containers, Predictive Self Healing, ZFS


The OpenSolaris source code contains all of the innovations found in the 
latest release of Solaris.


>> 5--OpenSolaris is open source – CDDL is OSI-approved, best license for 
>> businesses—processes in community are transparent and governed by 
>> community


The OpenSolaris community is transparent with processes for governance 
and infrastructure being discussed and developed in the open.


Jim
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