... by the way they broke my heart already, they will need a hell of a sales man to fix that ;-P
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > Thats the point, > Convincing, not by knowledge, but with the use of a sales speech. > > I am sure they will make more money than sun, but what I mean is that > we wont have as many machines around running solaris at that price... > data centers in big companies, but not so much in the middle range.. > > Yes they called me several times since the acquisition, I politely > tell them we made no decision yet... > > I miss sun so much... > > :-D > > > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, McBofh <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 6/10/10 10:40 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> >>> Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Søren Krarup Olesen <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes, I know all that, but I believe that legacy can be carried on in an >>>>> elegant way without being influenced by e.g. the Indiana project. >>>>> Besides, the term "Open" is more or less superflous these days; people >>>>> care about things being open source etc., but it really doens't have to >>>>> be part of the name IMHO...not anymore. >>>> >>>> When I read "OpenIndiana" I read it as the name of a bit of software, >>>> and I personally don't feel it has any association with the American >>>> state of Indiana. >>>> >>>> I know anti-american sentiment is quite strong these days thanks to >>>> their unilateral approach to foreign affairs, but probably not so >>>> great that it puts people off using our distribution :-) >>> >>> I loved calling it Indy which seemed to irk certain ones on the osol >>> channel. It makes me think of Indiana Jones. My knowledge of USA >>> geography is rather poor...I did not even know there is a state called >>> Indiana. Hats off to the Dane and their world traveling sense. Even >>> their Little Mermaid headed off to Shanghai for a stint away from >>> Copenhagen. >> >> "Indy" might get you in trouble with SGI (aka Silicon Graphics, Inc) >> because they sold a product with that name. >> >> Gabriel's idea that Oracle might not sell as many licenses for Solaris >> as Sun did is rather naive - Oracle makes money. Lots Of Money(tm). >> >> Sun didn't. >> >> Sun wasn't good at selling licenses for Solaris before they started >> giving it away and just charging for support instead. >> >> Also, have you ever experienced Oracle sales? It's very convincing. >> >> >> McBofh >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
