But isn't that market already captured by Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without _any_ serious hardware restrictions and experienced neighborhood kids to help you out? As my DL360 problems show me once again, OI can be a beast...
Cheers Stefan ________________________________________ Von: Hans J. Albertsson [[email protected]] Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Februar 2014 17:34 An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2014 April 8 This sounds reasonable! What needs to be done to capture this as a market share (actually, the reward would be visibility, only, not money) is to set up a readymade distro and a build recipe for a LOW LOW cost basement server for the home, to deliver privately controlled data storage that doesn't rely on the internet to be constantly available at high speed. On 2014-02-07 16:01, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> >> Do you think that because Microsoft stop creating patches that it >> will lose >> significant market share? I'm not sure I even want to think about the >> fact >> that a large proportion of those 30% of computers are not even kept >> patched > > Systems running Windows XP are not a "market". They were part of a > "market" quite a few years ago. For every Windows XP system still > actively used to browse the internet, there are probably two more > still left turned on. Most of these systems are best recycled into > plastic powder rather than reused since they are slow and bad for the > environment. > >> Even then, I wouldn't move the average Joe to OpenIndiana, I'd move >> them to >> Linux. In terms of user accessibility and usability (and general > > Evidence strongly suggests that the days of PC-style desktops are > over. Microsoft just changed its top management and selected > management with cloud expertise, Dell went private due to dwindling > sales, HP's PC division is suffering, and Sony's Vaio division is > being sold. The desktop PC market is collapsing fast at perhaps 30% > reduction in sales per year. The new normal has not been found yet. > > Illumos-based systems are well positioned to provide the back-end > servers and cloud computing that mobile and thin clients need now and > in the future. This bright future in infrastructure need not distract > from our desire to also use it as a GUI desktop for common usages. > > Bob _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ________________________________ Acando GmbH, Millerntorplatz 1, 20359 Hamburg, Germany | Geschäftsführer: Guido Ahle | Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 76048 | Ust.Ident-Nr.:DE208833022 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
