"Building a successful developer community around a
platform takes an enormous amount of time, money and effort. How
has Sun prepared to build up this idea of a community around
Solaris?
"Stacey Quandt: Since Sun rediscovered the value of Solaris on
x86 and x86- 64-bit platforms it has invested in hardware
certification, engineering efforts with key partners such as AMD
and released Solaris under an open source license. The open Solaris
community is comprised of users in research, government and other
vertical market segments and shares similarities with the early
adopters of Linux. The maturity of Solaris and the availability to
deploy it on AMD Opteron systems will appeal to users seeking
performance characteristics unavailable with Linux and the
economics of a commodity platform..."
