On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, your question is a good one... is that name enough to "compete" with them? I would have no issue recommending "OpenIndiana" in a board room to a bunch of pointy-haired-bosses* - it sounds way more corporate than Ubuntu, FreeBSD or CentOS, which I personally think sound "cheap". When someone first suggested CentOS to me as an alternative to RHEL, I was like "What?!". But over the years CentOS has gained an excellent reputation and I have no doubt that installations of it exceed those of RHEL significantly. Perhaps I'm biased as I essentially chose the name, but I don't see an issue with it. The biggest grumbles seemed to come from oldschool bearded UNIX types who haven't gotten over /usr/gnu/bin being put at the front of their PATH and who view Ian Murdock as the harbinger of doom and all things evil. The fact is we live in a world where every decent dictionary word is in use by somebody, somewhere. *.com, *.net and *.org are taken. Heck, in the UK/Europe we have some large banks called Smile and Egg. :-) Sometimes you have to make tough choices. Although OpenIndiana is not as sexy a name as "Solaris", the fact is, it was available and seemed a pretty good choice. If your bosses genuinely make business decisions based on trivialities such as what something is called, then you probably have bigger organisational issues than what OS your servers run :-P * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
