[LUAU] Open Source Pizza - October 18, 2005

Hawaii Linux Institute wp at HawaiiLinux.us
Sun Oct 16 10:05:25 PDT 2005


Angela Kahealani wrote:
> so, what's YOUR experience with OS?
>   
Very "negative" (note the "minus one" ranking that I gave)--I will try 
to discuss that in separate threads.  That's why I am asking whether 
anyone here has a different experience.  I would very much like to hear it.

I compared OpenSolaris with Linux, b/c Sun's CEO Scott McNealy declared 
that we should consider Solaris as a "variant of Linux".  Of course this 
was six months, his position might have changed.

But it is probably not fair to compare OS with Linux, as OS was debuted 
just four months ago.  That said, if Sun couldn't  quickly get more 
developers/end-users interested in OS beyond the existing Solaris 
community, I doubt anything will be different years from now (& the 
migration to Linux will continue).

In my brief adventure with OS, I also had the pleasure to encounter 
quite a few very sincere, hard-working, and earnest Sun employees.  But 
there is also a huge (as I have sensed) internal politics.  "Too little, 
too late" may not be the only problem, internal rigidity (which has been 
perceived as "arrogance") may be another.

Since both you and Jim, among perhaps several others, are Sun alumni, I 
apologize if I said something incorrect.  Wayne



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