Quotes
OpenSolaris Community Quotes
Tuesday, Jan 25, 1:00 PM PT
Current members of the OpenSolaris pilot program, not affiliated to Sun, have expressed their enthusiasm about the program below:
"Code that has been honed sharp with decades of diligence by scientists and engineers will now be open to both industry and individuals. A 64-bit complete OS for the most serious computational challenges. Medical, Energy and Transportation research operations and others will all be able to freely harness the power of UNIX. Open to the teacher. Open to the student. Every serious scientist or engineer will want to stand on the shoulder of this giant. OpenSolaris is the cure for the common computer."
-- Dennis Clarke, Director, Blastwave
"The pilot program has provided a vital link between those of us in the community and the driving forces inside of Sun, at all levels of the organization, to discuss, debate and guide the effort in a direction that will provide for the mutual benefits of the community and Sun. As a open source developer, having the ability to help improve and shape the
CDDL before it was submitted to the OSI was proof that Sun cares about the community and that this isn't just for show."
-- Ben Rockwood, Cuddletech
"At Dartmouth, we create customized operating environments tuned for our specific needs, such as for high performance computing. The OpenSolaris initiative empowers us to do exactly this with Solaris, which we widely use here. We have already downloaded Solaris source code that was made available to the ongoing OpenSolaris pilot participants and built it. I applaud Sun for so openly seeking feedback at each step of the way."
-- James Dobson, System Architect, Dartmouth College
"I have been extremely fortunate to work closely with Sun Microsystems since 1983 and to provide software support for Solaris for many years. The OpenSolaris project brings together Sun's internal developers with an already extremely talented group of outside programmers. This will expand Solaris significantly into the growing open source movement. I look forward to working with OpenSolaris community to bring its many efforts to my large group of Solaris users."
-- Steven M. Christensen, Ph.D., Sunfreeware.com
"Xerox has a long-standing relationship with Sun. We customize Solaris for key printing products. The OpenSolaris open development model, the community website and free access to open source code will help us streamline our customization process, increase productivity and accelerate innovation. We have provided early input and Sun is ensuring
that our commercial needs are met as they move to open source their flagship product. We expect OpenSolaris to generate additional opportunities for Sun and Xerox."
-- Marc Rocas, Manager, Advance Development, Xerox Corporation
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