What is OpenSolaris success?
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Now that opensolaris has been progressing for almost 2 years, some people are starting to ask the question "is it a success?" Which begs the question of how do you measure its success?
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As an example of the problem here, although I've seen multiple people (and in different areas) invite outsiders to be a part of an OpenSolaris project to provide new functionality, I've yet to see anyone step up to the plate to do more than provide just bug fixes.
Is this a problem? Not directly. What's more important is that stake holders in the OpenSolaris project, inside Sun, need to understand that it may take a length period of time (my estimate is 3-8 years, with anything meaningful inside 5 years a bonus) before there is a start to any real return on the investment in it as an open source project.
The problem for Sun, entering the open source space with OpenSolaris today is that many of those who it would like to have contributing are already at work elsewhere on other projects. Sun is somewhere between 10 and 15 years "late" and that in being "late" it faces a much harder job of being successful. Kind of like how it would be that much more difficult to start up a new ISP or search engine or internet auction web site, today, and compete with the giants that exist already.
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