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
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