[OpenIndiana-discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

[Didier Carlier]

Personal opinion : marketing is highly overrated (by marketers of course...).
OpenIndiana and Solaris 11 will succeed/fail because of their technical abilities, no pretty name will change that.

I believe a more useful job for marketers would be to better advertise these technical advantages like the fair share scheduler, crossbow, zones, zfs etc.

On 21 Jun 2011, at 01:53, Blake wrote:

> Does anyone besides me feel that we need a more unified naming/branding
> approach for the community-driven descendants of OpenSolaris? I feel that
> the there is no obvious connection (for those new to the platform) between
> Illumos/OpenIndiana, which I think is counterproductive given that
> OpenIndiana is sort of the 'Fedora Core' of Illumos.
> 
> Some possible names:
> 
> Illumos Live
> 
> Illumos Core
> 
> Illumos [version_number] - [adjective] [animal]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (kidding about the last one)
> 
> 
> I think OpenIndiana is great, I just don't think that the name 'Indiana'
> means anything to anyone and isn't very memorable.
> 
> 
> Blake
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