Cypros Telephony

Fun times in St. Petersburg. My half hearted knowledge of Russian that I nearly forgot comes very usefull here listening to very interesting presentations about all stuff SUN. Ian Murdoch had a little interactive talk at a Linux Usergroup Meeting at the University here and managed to tell people a bit about the new ways Opensolaris is taking in terms of usabilit, easier access, licensing and the like. I still think that we as the OpenSolaris community should insist more on that we are making the system more accessible, more easy to use, easier to install, easier to manage, more accessible for developers. We should pass to people more than the usual talk about dtrace and zfs. What about stability ? What about the thousands and thousands of places solaris is being real life tested and hardened ? What about the predictability of the Kernel ? As much as I like Ians presentations (his keynote speech at todays OpenSolaris Day Opening was purely fantastic), I dislike the notion coming through of a linuxisation. Worst in all this is that I cannot really see a linuxisation happening to OpenSolaris. I see everything else happening. Indiana making OpenSolaris easier to use, more familiar etc. I see that you get choice now to use GNU style utilities if you like. I see tons and tons of popular Applications from the OpenSource and non OpenSource World being ported (yes I know this is a shameless plug for the Software Porters Community I lead ) but its not in any form a linuxisation.

We are far too much defending ourselves against the image of being anti linux or anti something. Are we an anti movement ? I doubt it. We are pro familiarity. We are pro stability. We are pro innovation. We should show that more.

Maybe my writeup this morning is a bit confusing but to summarize my thinking, lets stop dealing so much with comparisons with other systems, lets show more of what we bring to the community, how we enable developers to dig deep down into the system (Ian plugged that nicely for PHP and Ruby developers today), how we are leading the way of the industry into an Adoption led Marketspace (hi Simon ) and how OpenSolaris is leading the way for tested, commercialy viable systems and applications into this new world of community and industry cooperation.

Just my 2 Rubels worth of thought for the day