[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

[Alan DuBoff]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Patrick Finch wrote:

> for clarity's sake: when you say it is dumb to market OpenSolaris, do you 
> mean it is dumb to place adverts about OpenSolaris, or something more?

I think it's wrong to look at OpenSolaris as a product, and treat it as 
such. The distributions that are built on OpenSolaris are a different 
story.

Having Sun try to brand OpenSolaris in the community is wrong. That type 
of marketing comes from the Cathedral, and if anything OpenSolaris needs 
to move away from the Cathedral where possible.

One of the very problems that exists today is that we don't have a Bazaar 
to speak of, and it's the Bazaar where the grass roots come from, IMO.

I'm not sure what makes Sun feel they can do a better job at marketing 
OpenSolaris than they did marketing Solaris. In the end OpenSolaris will 
stand on technical merit, just as Solaris did. My $0.02.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group