[OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

[Gabriel de la Cruz]

... by the way they broke my heart already, they will need a hell of a
sales man to fix that ;-P

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz
<gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats the point,
> Convincing, not by knowledge, but with the use of a sales speech.
>
> I am sure they will make more money than sun, but what I mean is that
> we wont have as many machines around running solaris at that price...
> data centers in big companies, but not so much in the middle range..
>
> Yes they called me several times since the acquisition, I politely
> tell them we made no decision yet...
>
> I miss sun so much...
>
> :-D
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, McBofh <james.c.mcpherson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On  6/10/10 10:40 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>>
>>> Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Søren Krarup Olesen <sko at es.aau.dk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I know all that, but I believe that legacy can be carried on in an
>>>>> elegant way without being influenced by e.g. the Indiana project.
>>>>> Besides, the term "Open" is more or less superflous these days; people
>>>>> care about things being open source etc., but it really doens't have to
>>>>> be part of the name IMHO...not anymore.
>>>>
>>>> When I read "OpenIndiana" I read it as the name of a bit of software,
>>>> and I personally don't feel it has any association with the American
>>>> state of Indiana.
>>>>
>>>> I know anti-american sentiment is quite strong these days thanks to
>>>> their unilateral approach to foreign affairs, but probably not so
>>>> great that it puts people off using our distribution :-)
>>>
>>> I loved calling it Indy which seemed to irk certain ones on the osol
>>> channel. It makes me think of Indiana Jones. My knowledge of USA
>>> geography  is rather poor...I did not even know there is a state called
>>>  Indiana. Hats off to the Dane and their world traveling sense. Even
>>> their Little Mermaid headed off to Shanghai for a stint away from
>>> Copenhagen.
>>
>> "Indy" might get you in trouble with SGI (aka Silicon Graphics, Inc)
>> because they sold a product with that name.
>>
>> Gabriel's idea that Oracle might not sell as many licenses for Solaris
>> as Sun did is rather naive - Oracle makes money. Lots Of Money(tm).
>>
>> Sun didn't.
>>
>> Sun wasn't good at selling licenses for Solaris before they started
>> giving it away and just charging for support instead.
>>
>> Also, have you ever experienced Oracle sales? It's very convincing.
>>
>>
>> McBofh
>>
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