Along with the branding thing... The name isn't a large sticking point for me at all, and I REALLY like the logos, website and presence that the PHB would perceive when they went to investigate the project. Sure it's not complete or matured but the project is new. I look forward to what that will bring. Make sure you allow as many lies and misperceptions as every other "enterprise" product so as not to be outdone! ;) Cheers, Brandon
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz > <gabriel.delac...@gmail.com> 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 > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
