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

[Laura Ramsey]

Right on, Sara. Your comments are just what I needed.

I love Jim's list...can we use that in another fashion...with community 
audience in mind (as opposed to the Field audience that this one is 
aimed for...)
Not sure....

but Jim's content is really good...

LKR


Sara Dornsife wrote:

> 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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