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Monthly Highlights

The OpenSolaris marketing team will post the highlights for each month. We will include an overview of the project stats, marketing activities that have gone on, and some of the press mentions from the month.

November OpenSolaris Community Marketing Highlights

November was a big month for OpenSolaris community marketing with active participation in 6 venues worldwide, 5 major milestones announced in the community, 4 more field training events, and OpenSolaris adoption momentum on the EDU front. The OpenSolaris Field materials have been expanded to include new collateral pieces, elevator pitches and a presentation library for SEs. User group momentum continued with 6 meetings held in November—including a special Dtrace and ZFS Fandango at the Sydney OpenSolaris user group. Other user groups met in Atlanta, Bejing, Chicago, Sweden and Venezuela. Rio de Janiero, Russia and Turkey are holding meetings in early December. Most importantly, Dartmouth College has announced the start of a collaboration project for improving the security features in the OpenSolaris code base. See below for deeper details on the OpenSolaris marketing efforts for the month.

SPOTLIGHT:

  • The OpenMinds Documentary
  • Lug Radio Interview w/ Adam Leventhal

Billed as 6 minutes and 24 seconds of open source reality, the OpenMinds documentary has 2148 downloads with over 1,000 others who viewed it off sun.com. It received a standing ovation at the OpenSolaris session at Immersion Week training in Chicago. And they chuckled at how exhausted Bryan Cantrill and Mike Shapiro looked! Sara Dornsife put together a great production. And Patrick Finch cinched an interview on Lug Radio w/Adam Leventhal. Instructive, hard core and at times VERY EDGY (NOTE—Not for the easily embarrassed) . Guerilla marketing at its finest.

Links to this kind of stuff are located here

CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR OPENSOLARIS PROJECT from 6/14/05 to 11/14/05

  • 10,000 Registered community members (8,900+ non-sun, 1,100+ are Sun employees
  • 12,000 Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups
  • 25,000 Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probably higher)
  • 24 Registered OpenSolaris User Groups
  • 127 Bugs reported by the community; 49 Fixed/closed/in progress
  • 52 Community contributions offered to OpenSolaris
  • 14 community contributions integrated into OpenSolaris (Putbacks)

Full metrics report

Roundup

  • Promoted Key Community Submissions to OpenSolaris.org with announcements on opensolaris.org, blog entries, sun.com features, and newsletter mentions through SDN and Sun Developer Campaign including ZFS, OpenGROK, XEN, BelliniX, Build 27 (general)
  • Adam Leventhal appeared on British Linux/open source podcast station "LugRadio"
  • General PR coverage: Boston TownHall, OpenSolaris mentions in 90% of coverage—neutral to positive tone; positioning of OpenSolaris community stable.
  • Kicked off white paper series with Simon Phipps—to be used for articles on sun.com, opensolaris.org as well as contributed articles.
  • Launched OpenSolaris Store
  • OpenSolaris Academic kit—for EDU Recruitment and OpenSolaris cirriculum development project kicked off w/OpenSolaris Engineering
  • New community page / discussion group for Solaris 10 University Challenge
  • Conducted 3 training sessions and a 2 hour BOF during Immersion Week Training—Featured ZFS detail and demo
  • Featured in keynote sessions for Solaris Days developer events in Atlanta and China
  • Solicited review of MySales.com update from Wolfpack and OS Ambassadors
  • Sales resources and New collateral:
    • OpenSolaris Datasheet
    • OpenSolaris EDU Datasheet
    • ZFS Screencapture
    • ZFS Podcast
    • OpenSolaris Elevator Pitches for EDU, GOV'T, Industry
    • OpenSolaris Technical Presentation Library
    • MySales.com update
    • Onestop.com update
  • Presented at EBC (AMD, Fujitsu among others)
  • User Group Activities—6 meetings in November—Favorite Topics: DTrace, Zones, ZFS. Avg. attendance: 30+ attendees. These groups are forming fast and expertise is being shared on the opensolaris.org user group page.
  • An impressive list of topics are being addressed and OpenSolaris user group community has started it's own library.
  • Prepare Evangelist recognition program —buttons and email recognition from OpenSolaris community members who are outstanding resources, connectors or evangelists for opensolaris.org.
  • Initiated participation in the Corporate Developer Campaign activities, especially judging for the Cool Threads contest in December.
  • Contributed ZFS articles to Sun.com/developer; Cross linked announcements to all Solaris development sites on sun.com.

Events

November Events:

  • OpenSolaris BoFs, presentations or booth participation at the following venues:
  • JavaOne Japan—Simon Phipps Keynote and BOF
  • Gartner IT Cannes—booth participation
  • OSBC/East—Cornerstone sponsorship included Hal Stern Keynote, Hosted Reception, Wireless lounge, banner ad and weblinks

December Events:

  • ApacheCon
  • LISA
  • Gartner Open Source Expo

Upcoming Activities

  • December Net Talk on OpenSolaris, created draft presentation
  • OpenSolaris Pod —NC OpenSource demo pavillion
  • OpenSolaris Pod—Gartner Open Source Summit
  • Ingredient brand strategy recommendation
  • OpenSolaris webpage on sun.com update
  • Field Awareness Survey #1—GEMs, OS Ambassadors, Practice Area SEs level of understanding of OpenSolaris and Value Proprosition

HOT CLIPS!

Sun Executive Riffs on Solaris, OpenSolaris; A Q&A with John Loiacono IDG News Service , China Martens; November 23, 2005
Was OpenSolaris a Mistake? Paul Murphy—ZD Net

Dartmouth College awarded Sun Centre of Excellence and the start of a collaboration project for Dartmouth to improve the security features in the OpenSolaris code base.
Dartmouth's press release
Interview with Glenn Weinberg
The story from The Dartmouth

December OpenSolaris Community Development Highlights

The OpenSolaris community brought the year to a nice close with more participation in projects, more registered members and user groups coming online. OpenSolaris marketing participated in the Gartner Open Source Summit in Orlando, Florida and teamed up with the engineering team to participate in Javapolis in Antwerp, Belgium, LISA and ApacheCon in San Diego. We're seeing a broad base of interest in OpenSolaris, and Sun's open source strategy in general. More details on the team's progress toward the marketing goals for OpenSolaris program are below.

SPOTLIGHT: Community Members On The Move!

Many many thanks to Ambreesh Khanna, one of our OpenSolaris Enthusiast extraordinaires who plugged OpenSolaris into several key field events and even did some booth duty for OpenSolaris in the open source tech demo area during the NC event. Friend of OpenSolaris David Dellabasse made it possible to distribute CDs of Solaris Express during Javaopolis. Thanks to Solaris Marketing for helping us—glad we could make that happen! Special thanks to OpenSolaris community members Ben Rockwood for outstanding blogging and promotions of Sun Studio 11 to community members, and to Tim Foster for continuuing his great work keeping the OpenSolaris User Group persentation Library up to date. Great things on the horizon for January!

CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR OPENSOLARIS PROJECT from 6/14/05 to 12/15/05

10,700 Registered community members (1,100 are Sun employees) 14,200 Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups 26,700 Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probably higher) 24 Registered OpenSolaris User Groups 162 Bugs reported by the community; 49 Fixed/closed/in progress 49 Bugs Fixed/closed/in progress in the community 61 Community contributions offered to OpenSolaris 25 community contributions integrated into OpenSolaris (Putbacks)

Full metrics report

Round-up

  • Promoted key opensolaris.org community announcements including blog entries, sun.com features, and newsletter mentions through SDN and Sun Developer Campaign. Feature topics included: BrandZ, Nexenta distro activities, User group activities, updates to presentation libraries and Wifi Drivers for Solaris 10 that are available on opensolaris.org.
  • OpenSolaris mentions in BigAdmin and Solaris developer newsletters on 12/21/05 drew 100+ clicks into OpenSolaris for wifi driver downloads or community updates so far. Expect to continue to see click throughs resulting from the newsletter over the coming week (during shutdown).
  • Prepared Evangelist recognition program —buttons and email recognition from OpenSolaris community members who are outstanding resources, connectors or evangelists for opensolaris.org.
  • Stephen Harpster, Rich Teer have both been requested to be judges for the Cool Threads Contest.
  • Contributed BrandZ Blogs for links to Sun.com/developer; Cross linked announcements to all Solaris development sites on sun.com.

Education Initiatives:

  • OpenSolaris Academic kit—for EDU Recruitment and OpenSolaris cirriculum development project kicked off w/OpenSolaris Engineering
  • New community page / discussion group for Solaris 10 University Challenge w/Solaris marketing
  • Funded and created Ad placements for EDU participation at SIGSE conference (with Teresa Giacomini)

Event Support: OpenSolaris BoFs, presentations or booth participation at the following venues:

o Gartner Open Source Expo, Orlando FL—Sponsorship funding contribution, booth participation
 o LISA, San Diego—Booth participation, BOFs and 60+ folks in Hospitality suite
 o ApacheCon, San Diego—Keynote contributions, Advertising, booth participation, BOF and 60+ folks at Hospitality suite
 o Javaopolis—BoF, Booth participation

  • Featured in keynote sessions for Solaris Days developer events in Atlanta and China.

User Group Activities—ongoing with several meetings in December including the Silicon Valley's Holiday Potluck, the Front Range OSUG and the London OSUG.

  • These user groups are forming fast and expertise is being shared on the opensolaris.org user group community page.
  • An impressive list of topics are being addressed and OpenSolaris user group community has and extensive presentation library.

Upcoming Activities

Net Talk on OpenSolaris, finalized—to be distributed in Early Jan. Ingredient brand strategy recommendation ISV Outreach and program strategy to be started in January OpenSolaris webpage on sun.com update

General PR coverage: Mentions in year end round up stories in Computerworld, IDG News, C/net ; Feature in IDG news on BrandZ.

  • We're still in the running for the SIIA Codie Award! (Thanks to OpenSolaris engineering folks for all their tremendous support on this!)
  • Finalized licensing white paper; and patent whitepaper to be drafted in January. Licensing whitepaper to be serialized on opensolaris.org, as well as offered to sun.com and as contributed articles to tech publications. (Thanks to Simon Phipps for his support on this!)
  • Designed and posted X/Mas T-shirt to OpenSolaris Store
  • Update contributions to websites throughout www.sun.com including sun.com/opensource.

HOT CLIPS!

2005 Top 10 Moments in IT Infoworld 12/19/05

Sun Finally Releases Janus IDG News Service and TechWorld 12/19/05

Sun Delivers Linux Code for Solaris IDG News service and Infoworld 12/16/05

OpenSolaris a Big Hit / new Solaris File System, upgrade in December IDG News service and CIO India 12/15/05

Sun Delivers ZFS and Linux Containers to OpenSolaris Computer Business Review 12/06/05

Sun Targets Developers with Expanded Open Source Effort Computerworld 12/06/05

First Look: BeliniX Live CD NewsForge 12/06/05

Opening Solaris Opens Door to Community Derivative Distros NewsForge — 12/05/05

January Highlights

This month the OpenSolaris community started off with the debut of a very popular project: Polaris. The Polaris project is the port of OpenSolaris to the Power PC platform. The community project is one of the most popular discussion threads in the OpenSolaris Jive forums, bringing together an interesting group of developers. Other cool communities starting up this month include the system adminstration community, and the content community. The OpenSolaris Marketing team focused on preparations for the OSBC event in San Francisco, where Jonathan Schwartz is keynoting and Sun is a Cornerstone partner. In addition, EDU and university outreach preparations continued with the preparations for SIGCSE conference and curriculum guidelines being developed. Check out the Sun Open Source Initiative T-shirt produced for the OSBC event attached. It's cool. More details on the team's progress toward the marketing goals for OpenSolaris program are below.

SPOTLIGHT

OpenSolaris outreach and education on Sun open source issues and strategies continues with 2 events this month: Open Source NetTalk and Open Solaris Expert Exchange. Sun Net Talks on Demand zero in on the hottest issues facing IT and business today. Hosted on sun.com, these events are heavily promoted to Sun's field and customer databases to help generate demand and educated Sun's users. This month we hosted a session entitled "Open Community: OpenSolaris, Open Source and the Future of Software". The event is 40+ mins long, and features Hal Stern, Simon Phipps, and our own Stephen Hahn, discussing why participation, community and sharing are the future of software. Sara then lined up an Expert Exchange, which is a live web chat to follow this session. 166 people attended the online chat, with roughly 120+ questions during the hour. The Sun eMarketing team told Sara it was well above average for attendance and interaction level. Congratulations to Bonnie Corwin, Al Hopper, Dan Price, Jim Grisanzio, Stephen Lau, Rich Teer, and Liana Praza for fielding the hot questions. Good fun. Transcript will be posted to the OpenSolaris Marketing community ASAP—we expect it to be available any day.

Links to this kind of stuff are located here

CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR OPENSOLARIS PROJECT from 6/14/05 to 1/30/06

11,400 Registered community members (1,400 are Sun employees) 19,000 Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups 28,400 Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probably higher) 27 Registered OpenSolaris User Groups 220 Bugs reported by the community; 49 Fixed/closed/in progress 68 Bugs Fixed/closed/in progress in the community 76 Community contributions offered to OpenSolaris 34 Community contributions integrated into OpenSolaris (Putbacks)

Full metrics report

Roundup

  • Big story this month from the opensolaris community has definitely been the PowerPC community activities. Polaris has been featured in several news articles and blogs (see clips below) and was the chattiest jive forum
  • OpenSolariis is a finalist for the SIIA Codie Award! (Thanks to OpenSolaris engineering folks for all their tremendous support on this!) Voting to open in March.
  • OpenSolaris Academic kit—for EDU Recruitment and OpenSolaris cirriculum development project kicked off w/OpenSolaris Engineering
  • Featured in keynote sessions for Solaris Days developer event at Chennai, India. Peter Kaarlson has been an invaluable partner in presenting OpenSolaris in all the tech days venues and in assisting with local coordination w/ OpenSolaris User groups. Great Evangelista!
  • User Group Activities—Welcome Turkey, Russia and Warangal to the WWOSUG community! More user groups are coming online everyday—check out the Frappr map

January Events

February and Upcoming Events

  • SIGCSE
  • FOSDEM
  • CEBIT
  • FISL

HOT CLIPS!

The Ovum Verdict on Sun's Open Software Strategy 1/09/06

Opensolaris Ready to Power up on IBM's PowerPC The Register 1/10/06

OpenSolaris Community Creates Kernel for Power Chips IT Jungle 1/16/06

Jonathan Schwartz: Go Free and Open Source or Fade Away ZD Net 1/19/06

Sun's ZFS Builds on Promise of RAID NewsForge 1/27/06

OpenSolaris Licensed Under GPL3?OS News 1/28/06

Will OpenSolaris and Linux Soon Be Trading Code? Linux-Watch 1/31/06

New Project on the Block? Make Some Friends! Tecosystems 1/31/06

February Highlights

BIG NEWS! The registrations for the OpenSource Community hit 12,000 on 2/28/06. It's great to see the continued interest and activity in the community—and according to our metrics, we're seeing continued downloads, contributions and activitiy on project forums. And the energy is extending worldwide, especially at well known open source conferences and events where OpenSolaris is participating, or being mentioned in Simon Phipps' Executive Keynotes.

SPOTLIGHT

FOSDEM —Brussels, Belgium. Patrick Finch represented OpenSolaris community development/marketing and joined with efforts of Dave Dellabase who helped organize several Sun "dev rm" sessions including:

  • Jay Dobson and Stuart Kreitman participating in the Xorg track (which was almost like a working session)
  • Jonathan Haslam delivered a DTrace tutorial (60 attendees) and a presentation (120 attendees).

This low cost sponsorship made a great difference and even made it possible for Sun to place a "gratis" advertisement in VNU publications in March. FOSDEM (also known as the Burning Man of the Open Source community) is a great, casual venue with nearly 3,500 attendees this year. OpenSolaris will definately want to play again next year!

CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR OPENSOLARIS PROJECT from 6/14/05 to 2/28/06

12,000 – Registered community members (1,400 are Sun employees)
 22,700 – Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups
 28,500 – Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probably higher)
 27 – Registered OpenSolaris User Groups
 261 – Bugs reported by the community; 49 Fixed/closed/in progress
 90 – Bugs Fixed/closed/in progress in the community
 88 – Community contributions offered to OpenSolaris
 35 – Community contributions integrated into OpenSolaris (Putbacks)

Full metrics report

Roundup

  • OSBC—San Francisco. Sun is a cornerstone sponsor at the OSBC conference in SF—see http://www.osbc.com/live/13/ . OpenSolaris marketing provided conference promotion activities including ad placement and open source T-shirts featuring all of Sun's open source projects.
  • Simon Phipps apears on the latest episode of the open source podcast radio show LugRadio. It's a very good listen and a great example for advocating Sun's strategy to open source developers. LugRadio is an irreverent, humourous and occasionally profane show run by four free and open source enthusiasts in the UK.
  • Curriculum Development deliverables completed (thanks to tireless efforts of Teresa Giacomini, Michelle Olson and Patrick Finch) The kit is already available on the Academic and Research Community. This will be the cornerstone of the team's "deliverables" for SIGCSE event in early March in Houston.
  • Sun.com/opensource page revisions are in first phase-—whole new linking map will restore links and first level visibility for OpenSolaris on sun.com.
  • Sun.com/opensolaris page revision completed—updating messaging and improved connectivity to other sun.com material.
  • Featured in keynote sessions for Solaris Days developer event in Singapore. Updated Keynote mentioned new innovations included in OpenSolaris builds including ZFS and BrandZ projects.
  • Published new OpenSolaris Strategy Overview, factsheet, and EDU datasheet for Sun customer requests.
  • Published new Licensing Whitepaper (authored by Simon Phipps)

Upcoming Events

SIGCSE (March)
 CEBIT (March)
 LinuxWorld Boston (April)
 FISL (April—Sao Paulo)
 Tech Days (April—Sao Paulo)

HOT CLIPS!

Enterprise Unix Roundup: OSBC Open Source Hot Spot Server Watch 2/17/06

The OpenSolaris Charter OS News 2/11/06

Wake Up, Guys! InformationWeek, 2/10/06

March Highlights

March was all about EDU! OpenSolaris took to the streets and attended the SIGCSE conference —then off to CEBIT…We've got plans starting for participating at JavaOne 2006, and the First Anniversary Celebration… More details on the team's progress toward the marketing goals for OpenSolaris program are below—But first, our favorite quote for the month:

"I think it's safe to say that the OpenSolaris community is thriving. It may not rival the size of the Linux community, but it's an entity in its own right."

Stephen O'Grady
 RedMonk

SPOTLIGHT:

SIGCSE 2006, March 1-5, Houston, Texas.

SIGCSE is the Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education. Around 1,200 computer science professors and professional educators from around the world (but mostly the US and especially the southern states) were present. OpenSolaris was represented in force —thanks to Russ Blaine, Patrick Finch, Teresa Giacomini, Eric Lowe and Michelle Olson for attending the show and making such outstanding connections. Congratulations on the OpenSolaris Curriculum Development Guide too. Great effort and great results!

Other great marketing outreach and word of mouth this month included positive mentions in industry analyst reports from RedMonk positioning OpenSolaris as a positive example of Sun's transformation and growing credibility in the open source arena. Also, our very own Ben Rockwood is recognized as a Sun Developer Champion. And It's all about OpenSolaris.

See Hot clips For more!
 Thanks for the outstanding support from the opensolaris community especially Teresa Giacomini on the EDU collaboration, Peter H. on the Tech Days collaboration, and Micheline Nijmeh on the developer channel collaboration!

CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR OPENSOLARIS PROJECT from 6/14/05 to 3/30/06

12,628 Registered community members (1,400 are Sun employees)

26,659 Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups

29,293 Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probably higher)

27  Registered OpenSolaris User Groups

291 Bugs reported by the community; 83 Fixed/closed/in progress

91    Community contributions offered to OpenSolaris; 47 integrated (Putbacks)

Full metrics report

Roundup

  • Simon Phipps Zen of OpenSource General Session at CeBIT (Featured OpenSolaris)

please note: LugRadio is known for it's fringe and sometimes profane humor—please be advised

  • OpenSolaris Academic kit—Now available for download and being distributed to universities interested in using OpenSolaris in their computer science syllabus.

Events

  • SIGCSE
  • Tech Days event at Madrid, Spain
  • CeBit
  • First German OpenSolaris User Group meeting

Upcoming Activities

  • FISL—Pod, User Group meeting and general outreach. (Staffed and Funded by OpenSolaris Engineering)
  • JAVAONE—Pod, User Group meeting and Open Source ISO Event for benefitting Freedom Toaster program from Shuttleworth Foundation
  • 1st Anniversary!

HOT CLIPS!

Has Solaris Turned the Corner?

McNealy PR Stunt Number 105: Merge Solaris and HPUX 3/1/06 IT Jungle.com

Sun Cashes in on OpenSolaris 3/6/06 eWEEK

April Highlights

On the Road with OpenSolaris

With back to back events in Brazil, OpenSolaris community members were busy participating in the Tech Days event in Sao Paulo, and then the following week at FISL. Meanwhile, down under in Sydney, OpenSolaris made it's official debut on the industry competitive radar when the CEO of Novell made a few unguarded comments during a Linux conference keynote in Australia. Other industry coverage and word of mouth continuued to position OpenSolaris as a positive example of Sun's transformation and growing credibility in the open source arena.

Special thnks to community members for tireless evangelizing of OpenSolaris in Tech Days—especially Frank Curan, Dimas and Rafael in Sao Paulo Brazil. Thanks go out to Stephen Lau for supporting FISL, and for pulling together the Build 38 ISO to be distributed at the conference. Gold medals go to Stephen Lau and Dennis Clarke for tag teaming the reviews editor at LinuxFormat—and to Moinak as well for getting the BeliniX ISO just right so it could be bundled… Finally, thanks to Ben Rockwood not only for asking if anyone at Sun was [ Full metrics report

Spotlight

OpenSolaris Review and Bundle: LINUXFormat

Mike Saunders published a very positive, in-depth 'how to' article for OpenSolaris in this month's Linux Format. The article was accompanied by a DVD of OpenSolaris distribution Belenix 0.4a. Linux Format is the top selling Linux publication in the UK and also has significant readership in the US. Saunders wrote the how-to and installation guide based on his own testing of OpenSolaris using the included Belenix distribution in the accompanying DVD. The combined how-to and DVD in this publication are ideal for reaching out to Linux developers and users, and should be a great lead generator for additional trial runs of OpenSolaris. Overall this is a very positive piece. Saunders opens the article by praising Solaris, highlighting "it has an excellent and well-deserved reputation of being rock-solid and speedy on multi-CPU servers – it’s very much the OS of choice for large-scale Oracle database systems." He then goes into the benefits of running opening up Solaris to a community audience.

CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR OPENSOLARIS PROJECT from 6/14/05 to 4/28/06

13,115 Registered community members (1,400 are Sun employees)
 30,912 Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups
 32,643 Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probablyhigher)
 28 Registered OpenSolaris User Groups
 356 Bugs reported by the community; 120 Fixed/closed/in progress
 141 Community contributions offered to OpenSolaris; 48 integrated (Putbacks)

Full metrics report

Roundup

  • Solaris Internals book published (co marketed with Prentiss Hall).
  • OpenSolaris Training DVD—this is a work in progress but a big thanks to Stephen Lau who has produced the first ISO combining code, binaries and Sun Studio, and the process for keeping the ISO updated.

Events

"I had a bunch of people take the DVDs home and install on their laptops that night and come back the next day to show it off or to get help. The BrandZ talk/demo went great. The room was packed, every seat was taken and there were probably 20-30 people standing in the back. BrandZ was one of the most talked about projects, people were really incredulous when they saw it running. And when they saw you could DTrace a Linux app, they were really impressed." Stephen Lau.

  • MySQL pod activity – Thanks Ben Rockwood for your participation.

Upcoming Activities

JAVAONE — OpenSolaris Pod, and Open Source ISO Event for benefitting Freedom Toaster] (http://www.freedomtoaster.org/)

HOT CLIPS!

{Sun is Working True to the Spirit OS/News 4/28/06

Lighting a Fire under Solaris C/Net 4/24/06

Solar Power—Running OpenSolaris LinuxFormat 4/5/06

Open Solaris a Source of Contention AustralianIT, 4/18/06

Linux Responds to Dtrace? SystemTap on Tap Redmonk—4/07/06

Sun Signals a New Day for Open Source InfoWorld—4/03/06

May Highlights

OpenSolaris at JavaOne—YES!

OpenSolaris blazed new trails at JavaOne…between action at the POD, and sponsoring the Freedom Toaster event—participating in the historic Java Licensing announcement, and holding a joint User group meeting with the Java SE gang, OpenSolaris brought the true meaning and opportunity of Open Source to JavaOne. So many Linux developers who didn't realize they had a choice in open source operating systems were hot to get Build 38 and try it out. Holding conversations at the booth, and hosting these key "open source community" oriented activities continuued to position OpenSolaris as a positive example of Sun's transformation and growing credibility in the open source arena.

Special thanks to community members for making JavaOne a success, …. Finally, Gold star to Dan Price and Stephen Lau for bailing LKR out, and making it possible to burn Install and Live CDs of NexentaOS at the booth. It was fun, and it was messy, and it was Open Source Marketing at it's finest!

Cheers, OpenSolaris Marketing Team

SPOTLIGHT:

 OpenSolaris Sponsors Freedom Toaster Event and Donation

The Shuttleworth Foundation has an inspired program that delivers free and open source software to remote regions on server “kiosks”. Called Freedom Toasters, these kiosks allow people to choose the software and operating systems that they want and to "toast" them onto CDs, without the need for an Internet connection.

Sun Donated 3 Ultra 20s loaded with Sun's Free and Open Source software including OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, Jini, Jxta, JavaSE 5, GlassFish, Looking Glass and many others.

The OpenSolaris team hosted the event… See coverage

CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR OPENSOLARIS PROJECT from 6/14/05 to 5/22/06

13, 650 Registered community members (1,400 are Sun employees)
 36,000 Postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups
 33,000 Recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probablyhigher)
 29 Registered OpenSolaris User Groups
 404 Bugs reported by the community; 190 Fixed/closed/in progress
 160 Community contributions offered to OpenSolaris; 58 integrated (Putbacks)

Full metrics report

Roundup

  • Participated in Java SE 5 Licensing announcement—Featured mentions of OpenSolaris Distributions, and Quote from Nexenta. The new license allows distributors to ship Sun's Java SE 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) as installable packages for their operating systems.
  • Blog responses on CDDL, Open Source Solaris and major corrections/editorial.

Open Source significance (response to BEA keynote at JavaOne)
Sun's Open Source Policy (response to Stuart Cohen's editorial)
"End" of Unix (response to Mark Hall's editorial in Computerworld)
Comparison of Solaris to Windows (response to Neil McAllister article in Infoworld)

  • Created new CD Art for distributions and distributed Build 38 with tools and SXCR, and Nexenta distribution at JavaOne Booth.
  • Posted new Banner ad to go live on Sun.com properties and selected newsletters on June 14.
  • Attended SANE, Systems Administration and Network Engineering, 2006 in Delft. Lianne Praza and Casper Dik both lead Bird of a feather sessions and presented. Distributed build 38 on DVD.
  • EDU Solaris 10 bootcamp kits.
  • Updated Field kit and presentations to include ISV benefits

Upcoming Activities

1st Anniversary!

HOT CLIPS!

DTrace Reaches Prime Time on FreeBSD ZD Net Australia 5/29/06

OpenSource Java Not Sun's Only OSS Anno at JavaOne Application Development Trends 5/23/06

Why Open Source works for Solaris ZDNet 5/09/06

Open Source Solaris turns profitable while McNealy Stands Ground ZDNet (Austrailia) 5/03/06

Apple Pondering OS X File System Upgrade (ZFS) VNUNet 5/02/06

Sun Solaris to Linux: Size Matters After All InformationWeek 5/01/06

Sun is Working True to the Spirit OS/News 4/28/06

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