Just Some Small Details Got Overlooked...

[furrbear]

From OSdir.com:

Posted Dec 04, 2008
OpenSolaris 2008.11 Released


From the ZFS Lovers dept.:
OpenSolaris 2008.11 is the latest release of the OpenSolaris Operating System, a powerful and complete operating environment for users, developers and deployers. OpenSolaris prides itself on being a secure, stable, and highly scalable system. OpenSolaris OS is open source software, and freely re-distributable and provides all the tools users expect from a modern computing environment both installed by default and available on our online network package repositories.

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Dear Sun,

Before making this kind of announcement, it would have been a good idea to actually already have the software on the download mirrors. You know, like you did for the May release? And even better, maybe even update your download and mirror pages to point to the current image.

OK?

K Thnx Bye

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Sloppy Sun

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Back before I was laid off as a product marketing manager at Sun, I was involved in "pushing" new releases. That entailed checking that everything worked correctly before a "site" was made "live". Even after it was pushed, I would check things as if I was an ordinary user to make sure everything was OK. Occasionally I would find problems at various stages of development.

I purchased and downloaded StarOffice a couple of weeks ago and could tell that whoever was in charge of that product didn't check the process as I encountered problems. They didn't provide an e-mail address where I could comment although they did have a live support person in Ireland, but he was clueless. You're seeing the results of that.

Unfortunately, in order to "stay alive", Sun has probably laid of too many people. They are probably still "process heavy" rather than being "results-oriented".

Chuck, former developer products marketing manager