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

[Bonnie Corwin]

I agree with Jim's points - one addidtional point:

>>>>>>>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.
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, that's a very good point. Get involved early, learn about the 
> features and the code, etc.
> 
> But to be honest, I'd like people to feel they can do more than preview. 
> All these customers have engineers living inside them, right? Well, 
> those guys are all potential OpenSolaris community contributors. They 
> have something to *offer* the community and they'll benefit by becoming 
> involved as well. I re-wrote the original because it's not really 
> accurate. ZFS didn't ship as a part of S10, for example.

Be careful with this one.  People can preview upcoming Solaris features
in Solaris Express.  You don't need to the source to try out new
features as a user.

OpenSolaris provides value because it lets people get involved early -
as new features are being designed - as code is being developed - and
they can participate if they want to.

Bonnie

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