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Originally Posted by KevinH It's on our list but low in relative to other platforms. We've produced platforms in general order of commercial interest. If you or your company have interest in buying Zimbra on Solaris please contact the sales team. They keep a list of unsupported platforms and the $ that are hinging on those deals. |
This could be a chicken-egg problem. You guys haven't marketed your product at the solaris crowd at all yet. The solaris crowd tends to be fairly anti-linux in my experience, so you might see little interest in your product based simply on that.
I'm sure that if you have perused any sun related newsgroups over the last 10 years (and I'm sure many of you have). you will have noticed that Rich Teer among others simply see no way but the solaris way and they are willing to pay for that way.
In my opinion, if you took the time to port zimbra to solaris and then marketed it against the bloated, confusing, generally poorly put together Java Enterprise System you may just do very well in a very wealthy market segment.
I appreciate Zimbra's interest in following the money, but sometimes you just have to take a risk. In my own experience Zimbra's product is, if nothing else, a more coherent product than any of Sun's offerings.
While I happily use the open source version of your product on linux boxen, I would be even more happy to use it on Solaris/SPARC. It would even be likely that I would purchase the network edition, at least the basic small-biz version.