I agree that Sun's engineering legacy is impressive. Unfortunately, the words 'Sun' and 'Solaris' are anathema to most young startups and newbie engineers. Rather than forcing a history lesson on them, I feel we should look forward when evangelizing the platform.
Blake On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jake Young <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ken Gunderson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 21:11 -0400, Jake wrote: > > > I totally agree. OpenIndiana describes the distro quite well, since it > is > > the opensource bits of the Solaris Indiana release; but the reference is > > totally lost to anyone not familiar with what OpenSolaris was. > > > > > > I think a Sun reference would be fitting. > > > > Why? The Sun has set some time ago. There's nothing to see here now. > > Time to move along, move along. Perhaps you're thinking that a > > reference to Sun obscure enough to avoid a lawsuit would in some way be > > attractive to business. I think the opposite - anyone who's been around > > for a while has their Oracle horror story so why would we want to > > associate. And by Oracle, I'm referencing the corporate entity, not > > contributing individuals who happen to be employed by same. > > > > > > -- > > Regards-- Ken Gunderson > > > > One of the biggest appeals of OI/Illumos to me is that it is a > continuation > of the legacy of Sun Solaris' high standards of engineering excellence. My > personal view of the open sourcing of Solaris 11 is that someone in Sun > wanted to make sure that the OS that had so much invested in it would have > an opportunity to continue to flourish. Things weren't going so well for > Sun back in 2005, it was pretty clear that if the Sun hardware wasn't going > to make enough money, the OS development would be impacted severely. The > roots of Solaris go back to the beginning of > > Not that Sun was such a great company, but there were a lot of fantastic > developers there. Anyone I talked to that knew the kernel development > teams, said something along the lines of "they're the smartest people I > know". Sun incubated that talent and tried to make its money from hardware > sales. > > There are still a lot of fantastic people that stayed on when Oracle took > over. What is scaring everyone is what will Oracle do with Solaris in 5 > years, will there even be a Solaris 12? > > Maybe someday, OI/Illumos will not be seen as the fork... > > I think its appropriate to honor the company that brought us this great OS! > > Jake > _______________________________________________ > 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
