> Hi, > I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenSolaris community. Some of you > might know me from my previous roles at Sun, or from my blog, but > starting today I'll be leading up Sun's Solaris marketing efforts, > including OpenSolaris marketing. The first thing I want to do is listen > to the OpenSolaris community and understand what you want Sun to be > doing better to support you. I've already had some good advice from my > blog posting over the weekend including: > > - make sure you are telling non-Sun users about OpenSolaris > - get more Sun engineers to speak on OpenSolaris at conferences, > especially non-Sun oriented conferences like USENIX, LISA, etc. > - clean up the branding, i.e. Solaris Express Community Edition, Solaris > Express Developer Edition, OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, etc. > > While it is only my first day in the new job, I can already tell you > there is a tremendous amount of executive attention at Sun focused on > ensuring the OpenSolaris community is successful. Among many other > things, one of my priorities is to ensure we bring our own Solaris 10 > distribution closer to the OpenSolaris source base (there is a pretty > big time lag right now). I'm really excited about my new job, hope to > meet many more OpenSolaris community members, either virtually or in > person, and look forward to the growing success of the community.
As an outside Sun type community person I just want to say that the level of transparency and open communication I am seeing has no precedent anywhere in industry. I have now heard from both yourself and Ian Murdock on this very mail list. This open and public mail list. It really is fantastic that we community types know that people are listening, reading, involved and participating from the left to the right of Sun. Not the top to the bottom. We are all in here together and I am seeing that as a reality and not some empty sales pitch. Where else do we community types hear from top level execs? Amazing. Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
