From Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM Fri Feb 2 04:17:46 2007 From: Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM (patrick finch) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:17:46 +0100 Subject: [osol-mktg] Community metrics - dialing down the frequency Message-ID: <45C32BEA.8000902@sun.com> All, Previously, I have been publishing metrics on community volumes and trends once a month. Due to other commitments on my time, I propose only to publish these figures once a quarter, so at the start of April I will publish an updated report to cover the period Jan-March. If this gives anyone heartburn please let me know. Patrick From gerardnualla at gmail.com Sun Feb 11 01:30:02 2007 From: gerardnualla at gmail.com (Gerard Nualla) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:30:02 PST Subject: [osol-mktg] Open Solaris T-Shirts?? Message-ID: <23962909.1171186232285.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> Hello, how or where can we avail opensolaris.org t-shirts? Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org From Tim.Foster at Sun.COM Sun Feb 11 09:20:08 2007 From: Tim.Foster at Sun.COM (Tim Foster) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:20:08 +0000 Subject: [osol-mktg] Open Solaris T-Shirts?? In-Reply-To: <23962909.1171186232285.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> References: <23962909.1171186232285.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> Message-ID: <45CF5048.3080000@sun.com> Hi Gerard, Gerard Nualla wrote: > Hello, how or where can we avail opensolaris.org t-shirts? Thanks! There's a few ways to get them, commercially via http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=5069&op=articles (or it's european site spreadshirt.net) or http://store.opensolarisswag.com/ or http://www.cafepress.com/sunopensource But there's other ways to get them, do something cool for/with the opensolaris community, and hope that some kind soul notices and sends you a free t-shirt (I can attest to this one working in the past :-) Or visit one of the Sun tech days and be nice to the people on the stand - you might get lucky. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf From Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM Mon Feb 12 11:44:31 2007 From: Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM (Sara Dornsife) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:44:31 -0600 Subject: [osol-mktg] Open Solaris T-Shirts?? In-Reply-To: <23962909.1171186232285.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> References: <23962909.1171186232285.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> Message-ID: <45D0C39F.5020802@sun.com> Gerard, There are a list of places you can buy shirts at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/buy_swag/. Hope that helps. Sara Gerard Nualla wrote: > Hello, how or where can we avail opensolaris.org t-shirts? Thanks! > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-mktg mailing list > opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org > From bill_moffitt at yahoo.com Thu Feb 15 16:16:06 2007 From: bill_moffitt at yahoo.com (Bill Moffitt) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:16:06 PST Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server/Appli Message-ID: <8506325.1171584996216.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> Peter- Believe it or not, this is a question I have been pondering ever since I left Sun in 2005- how can Solaris, with its many winning attributes (open source, reliability, security, wealth of services, etc.) be turned into a viable competitor to Microsoft Windows Small Business Server? Part of my motivation for pondering that question is that I found myself in a small company (~100 people) that had, years ago, standardized all their administration applications onto Windows servers (happily all the development was done on Linux, so they're still in business...). The problems of securing and administering a group of Windows machines to provide Active Directory, Email, and Access (for an in-house ERP system) was crushing - they had an IT director, a full-time DBA, and two contractors running pretty much full-time, and they were not getting ahead of the work. Needless to say, they had a lot of work all the time to fend off virus and malware attacks, keep the directories up-to-date, and try to optimize the configurations to allow for growth but not consume massive amounts of money. It has been my (limited) experience that, when one is starting a company, one comes to a time when you are sitting around with about 5 other people, and someone realizes that the group needs a server. Using your hotmail accounts and passing around USB disks to keep documents synchronized just ain't working. They look around; the CEO has a windows laptop, the operations person has a windows laptop, the finance person has a windows laptop. It's pretty clear that, whatever you get, it needs to play well with Windows (that engineering dude might be running Linux or something, and the marketing person might be running OS X, but nobody really understands what those guys are talking about anyway...) So the obvious decision is to get a Windows Small Business server. Dell will wrap one up and send it out the next day, might even finance it. We all know Windows, so we can set it up and run it ourselves, right? (an excellent post on this topic is here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=39163飻 ) Hey, it'll work great, 'cuz it's Windows, right? And for quite a while, it actually does. Whether they would have been wiser to have eschewed a server altogether and just used Yahoo small business services or Webex weboffice or even godaddy (I used Google Groups and Godaddy for my latest venture to get it up and running fast, and I have been very happy... of course, there's only two of us in the company, and we're separated by ~3000 miles) Indeed, there's only one thing that can go wrong: the business could (shudder) actually succeed and grow! And that's where my former employer found themselves. (to be continued...) This message posted from opensolaris.org From jcooley1 at gt.rr.com Sun Feb 25 12:11:08 2007 From: jcooley1 at gt.rr.com (janice) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:11:08 PST Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Stickers In-Reply-To: <30717858.1163187550403.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app2> Message-ID: <27287214.1172434298531.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> The stickers would be a good idea, I heard there are open solaris t shirts too, where can you get those? This message posted from opensolaris.org From jcooley1 at gt.rr.com Sun Feb 25 12:11:58 2007 From: jcooley1 at gt.rr.com (janice) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:11:58 PST Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Stickers In-Reply-To: <30717858.1163187550403.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app2> Message-ID: <31227669.1172434371964.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> The stickers would be a good idea, I heard there are open solaris t shirts too, where can you get those? This message posted from opensolaris.org From jcooley1 at gt.rr.com Sun Feb 25 12:13:38 2007 From: jcooley1 at gt.rr.com (janice) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:13:38 PST Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Stickers In-Reply-To: <30717858.1163187550403.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app2> Message-ID: <32006152.1172434473251.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> sorry, didn't mean to post twice, it was giving me an error the first time but posted nonetheless! This message posted from opensolaris.org From brian.mccafferty at cogeco.ca Sun Feb 25 16:44:34 2007 From: brian.mccafferty at cogeco.ca (Brian McCafferty) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:44:34 PST Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Stickers In-Reply-To: <32006152.1172434473251.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> Message-ID: <14244649.1172450717760.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> I see a shirt here: http://store.opensolarisswag.com/ There are two more links if you go to the marketing community. I just wish there was more-I could use a new jacket! This message posted from opensolaris.org From shiva.madras at gmail.com Tue Feb 27 12:42:48 2007 From: shiva.madras at gmail.com (Muthusamy Sivasubramanian) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:42:48 PST Subject: [osol-mktg] Project Proposal: hdesktop Message-ID: <6357623.1172608998678.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> Hello, Solaris is an elaborate, advanced and secure operating system which has so far been in the realm of IT professionals, so much so that the standalone products such as the Ultra 10 workstation has been intended for the tech-savvy professional. [b]hdesktop[/b] is a product intended to be a desktop, initially for the Solaris familiar professional who would love to take a solaris desktop home. But gradually the product is to be shaped as a secure desktop with "no-settings-to-do" secure environment, with specialized hardware, a GUI that requires that has a completely non-technical interface and so on. A brief description of this project is at www.isolatednetworks.com/hdesktop.htm The tasks outlined in the page may appear very basic, but that it the idea: Attention to the basics from the Technically Advanced Professionals. The idea is to scale down a sun server into that of a desktop, to a level of usage ease, yet secure enough for someone whose idea of virus and worm protection is an anti-bacterial casing. Project Phases: 1. The basic phase: A "crude box"is built up as a prototype with an Asus M2 NP VM motherboard with nVidea and an amd athelon processor 3600. The Hardware compatiblility list has been consulted in deciding on this board. But three attempts to install, each time a different version, Solaris 10, 1/06. 06/06 and now 11/06 - all resulted in some minor compatiblity issue, which should be solvable: 1. The display resolution now is 800x640. 2) The network is not detected 3) star office in Java Desktop does not install 4) the cursor is invisible on re-log in, but appears if the machine is restarted. The first phase to get it all working. It would help if a few of the solaris professionals at Bangalore / Chennai can physically examine the hardware and go over the installation and patching routine. 2. Hardware redesign: I talked about this product and how it all makes strategic sense for Sun but the crucial observation is that this product also has a motherboard and a processor, like any other desktop manufactured by any other company. So, the hardware needs to be differentiated, unique engineered. Motherboard, yes, but of what unique features ??? And about custom casing, with security features... 3. Software bundling: Here the focus is to "minimise" componets, improve desktop features (Java Desktop) and make the product secure for someone allergic to command prompt and technical terms. This proposal comes from a company with commercial intent, which wishes to discover ways by which it could reciprocate the help taken ... Muthusamy Sivasubramanian, India. http://www.isolatednetworks.com/hdesktop.htm weblogs.java.net/blog/isolatednetworks[b][/b] This message posted from opensolaris.org From Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM Wed Feb 28 12:51:49 2007 From: Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM (Sara Dornsife) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:51:49 -0600 Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Stickers In-Reply-To: <27287214.1172434298531.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> References: <27287214.1172434298531.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app1> Message-ID: <45E5EB65.6050200@sun.com> Probably time to update these, but this is what's available - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/buy_swag/ Sara janice wrote: > The stickers would be a good idea, I heard there are open solaris t shirts too, where can you get those? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-mktg mailing list > opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org >