[719] in athena10
Re: Here's what I'm saying about Athena 10. Does it seem right to you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Dec 9 23:07:16 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:01:41 -0500
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
That question came up in the internal review of the article.
I expressed the concern that Solaris sunset needed its own separate
outreach. It would be bad if people perceived one sentence we intend
as a reminder to be a poor way to announce a decision they were
unaware of.
I think I need to take up the project, "Shepherd Desktop Solaris
Sunset outreach." :-(
-Bill
On Dec 9, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> You make no mention of Solaris, which leaves a dangling question for
> those who don't know that it is going away. I think it would be
> better to note that explicitly, though this may not be the right forum
> to communicate that if we haven't targetted communication at certain
> users yet. Thoughts?
>
> Jonathon
>
>
>
>> As you know, I've had a long-standing action item to get some more
>> publicity about Athena 10 out there. Robyn Fizz and I have cooked up
>> an article for the IS&T Insider to Spotlight Athena 10.
>>
>> I want to share the current draft of the article with you. I think
>> I've got it right, but you are welcome to reply to Robyn and me if
>> there's something that should change. This article is going to press
>> very soon, so if you have a correction, you need to reply NOW.
>
