On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > I certainly understand your point of view, Richard. Unfortunately, fewer > developers nowadays understand systems, and that's not likely to improve. > > My point is more that tool choice in business is driven by opportunity cost > and the bottom line. If I have to spend an extra two weeks training devs to > use a Solaris platform, management will often prefer to use the faster, > albeit sloppier, Linux platform instead. Hence the meteoric rise of Ubuntu, > Ruby, RVM and other easy-but-not-that-stable tools. Stability ends up > getting handled with horizontal scale across many systems, rather than > making a smaller set of monolithic systems highly reliable. > > I predict that if we as a Solaris community don't adapt to this changing > corporate landscape we will be relegated to a corner along with AIX and > HP-UX. In *every* development environment I've worked in, developer > response to my suggestion to try Solaris has always started with "why? it's > too hard to use/compile on/install". I've been able to change these > opinions in some cases, but it's a hellish uphill battle when the Solaris > community has refused (until fairly recently), to compromise in the > userspace. > > All I want is to get as many people as possible using and contributing to > this project :) >
I've seen the same. For simply the lack of a friendly & developer oriented "out-of-box experience", Solaris/OI is quickly down rated. The Ruby example is a good one. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
