[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2014 April 8

[Stefan Müller-Wilken]

But isn't that market already captured by Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without _any_ serious hardware restrictions and experienced neighborhood kids to help you out? As my DL360 problems show me once again, OI can be a beast...

Cheers
 Stefan
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Von: Hans J. Albertsson [hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se]
Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Februar 2014 17:34
An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2014 April 8

This sounds reasonable!

What needs to be done to capture this as a market share (actually, the
reward would be visibility, only, not money) is to set up a readymade
distro and a build recipe for a LOW LOW cost basement server for the
home, to deliver privately controlled data storage that doesn't rely on
the internet to be constantly available at high speed.


On 2014-02-07 16:01, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>>
>> Do you think that because Microsoft stop creating patches that it
>> will lose
>> significant market share? I'm not sure I even want to think about the
>> fact
>> that a large proportion of those 30% of computers are not even kept
>> patched
>
> Systems running Windows XP are not a "market".  They were part of a
> "market" quite a few years ago.  For every Windows XP system still
> actively used to browse the internet, there are probably two more
> still left turned on.  Most of these systems are best recycled into
> plastic powder rather than reused since they are slow and bad for the
> environment.
>
>> Even then, I wouldn't move the average Joe to OpenIndiana, I'd move
>> them to
>> Linux.  In terms of user accessibility and usability (and general
>
> Evidence strongly suggests that the days of PC-style desktops are
> over.  Microsoft just changed its top management and selected
> management with cloud expertise, Dell went private due to dwindling
> sales, HP's PC division is suffering, and Sony's Vaio division is
> being sold.  The desktop PC market is collapsing fast at perhaps 30%
> reduction in sales per year.  The new normal has not been found yet.
>
> Illumos-based systems are well positioned to provide the back-end
> servers and cloud computing that mobile and thin clients need now and
> in the future.  This bright future in infrastructure need not distract
> from our desire to also use it as a GUI desktop for common usages.
>
> Bob


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