OpenSolaris: how long will it be with us?
Jun 09, 2009, 15:31 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sam Varghese)
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"The question that always comes up in my mind when I
look at OpenSolaris is: whom is this operating system aimed at? Is
it just for developers or is it also aimed at users who are
somewhat experienced in using graphical desktops based on a
UNIX-like system?
"I asked Simon Phipps, the chief open source officer at Sun,
about this when I interviewed him in January this year; his
response was: "I'd say that OpenSolaris is aimed squarely at
developers who want to have a graphical desktop. Those are the
developers who, in the future, will produce the next generation of
both client- and server-based OpenSolaris activities. That's not to
say that that's what OpenSolaris will be about in three years'
time. But where we are at the moment, I'd definitely say it's for
web developers, and for the next generation of Unix
developers.""
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