[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Allan Echavia Registos]

Kumusta Christopher:

On 5/25/2011 8:28 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 08:20 AM, Allan E. Registos wrote:
>> +1.
>> Be friendly to Linux users(me a Linux user), as these are the people 
>> that will often convert to BSD and Solaris/OI. I think most 
>> enterprise data centers nowadays are a hive of heterogeneous 
>> technologies.
>>
>>
>
> I came from Linux over the OpenSolaris too but I did not expect people 
> to hold my hand. Being friendly should not mean being willing to hold 
> hand of critical whiner. Even within Linux you get people who won't 
> touch certain distros because the toolchains are different and that's 
> usually because they were not willing to learn about those new 
> toolchains/system scripts
It is true that there are people who doesn't want change and want to 
stay in their comfort zone. But If you invested much time in that 
environment(you have many applications <inhouse / commercial ones> 
running on your current platform where ERP was the most notorious), then 
even if the new OS with promising enterprise features doesn't worth the 
switch,  for this exact reason, we still have Windows XP installed. But 
that new technology can be added in the mix as long as it is relevant.
> but you won't see deb distro guys going out of their way to make 
> things familiar for rpm distro users and vice versa. 
You need to support both if you build Linux systems to customers.