[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[David]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Blake <blake.irvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I certainly understand your point of view, Richard.  Unfortunately, fewer
> developers nowadays understand systems, and that's not likely to improve.
>
> My point is more that tool choice in business is driven by opportunity cost
> and the bottom line.  If I have to spend an extra two weeks training devs to
> use a Solaris platform, management will often prefer to use the faster,
> albeit sloppier, Linux platform instead.  Hence the meteoric rise of Ubuntu,
> Ruby, RVM and other easy-but-not-that-stable tools.  Stability ends up
> getting handled with horizontal scale across many systems, rather than
> making a smaller set of monolithic systems highly reliable.
>
> I predict that if we as a Solaris community don't adapt to this changing
> corporate landscape we will be relegated to a corner along with AIX and
> HP-UX.  In *every* development environment I've worked in, developer
> response to my suggestion to try Solaris has always started with "why?  it's
> too hard to use/compile on/install".  I've been able to change these
> opinions in some cases, but it's a hellish uphill battle when the Solaris
> community has refused (until fairly recently), to compromise in the
> userspace.
>
> All I want is to get as many people as possible using and contributing to
> this project :)
>

I've seen the same.

For simply the lack of a friendly & developer oriented "out-of-box
experience", Solaris/OI is quickly down rated.

The Ruby example is a good one.