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

[Sara Dornsife]

I think the question is more than just how these are written, correct me 
if I'm wrong Laura, but also if those are the 5 most important things 
for Sun's field sales force to know - one year later. I've added some 
comments below that don't feel very helpful, but I wanted to throw some 
thoughts out there.
Sara


Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> +1
> 
> Teresa Giacomini wrote On 05/30/06 14:48,:
>> Wow Jim.  Short and sweet and amazingly clear.  Nice.
>>
>> Jim Grisanzio wrote On 05/30/06 10:23,:
>>
>>
>>> 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.

I don't have the wording here, (Jim?) but the benefit would be better 
here than the feature.

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> 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.

Something that would state the difference between Solaris and 
OpenSolaris would be good. I think that is the crux of one of the most 
important things for them to know.

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> 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.

The field isn't here yet. They still want to know why, and how, the two 
are different. I think this terminology doesn't mean a lot to people 
outside of this group. I don't believe, I have nothing to back this up, 
that this is one of the top 5.

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> 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.

In my opinion, the more important thing is that people can preview 
upcoming Solaris features in OpenSolaris. It gives the project a value 
for our customers.

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> 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.

This one begs the question about a license question. I like Jim's 
response that turns the definition of open from license to behavior.

>>>
>>>
>>> Jim
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