> At least someone agrees with me about it being an > issue... The > current spin is targeted at single point "PC" > installations, no > question about it, but it's incomplete unless you > want to break laws, > some people would gladly do this, but hopefully their > employer is more > forgiving than the patent holders. > > James
Actually the last thing you want your employees to do is to play MPEG files--even legally. Apart from the fact that it is almost never a part of the job, invitation for serious security breaches is the paramount concern. Thus, whatever is supposed to be missing for Solaris does not affect it to be a good candidate for business desktops. Indeed, this may turn out to be an advantage. When I was at Exxon, every time anyone got a new PC, we always gutted the system and installed our own version of Windows. Small businesses, however, cannot afford to do that, and we have to suffer the dire consequences of running Windows. What we really need, I believe, is a bunch of entrepreneurs who will/can work with Sun to sell Solaris services to small business owners. I think Sun has done an unbelievable job of porting this holy grail of all operating systems to an almost ubiquitary level. It can be very interesting to see what may happen next. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
