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Sun Microsystems Solaris Case Study Challenge

Teams will now have to put their skills and brains to the test in mocking up their plan to come up with the best solution and present it to a panel of Sun representatives and a professor on July 13

Information

Event Type: Case Study Preliminary Judging Round
Theme: Innovation - Business and Technology
Date: Friday, July 13, 2007
Venue: University of Waterloo, DC 1302
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON
N2L 3G1
Registration: Closed
Event Poster: Click Here to View
Event Presentation: Click Here to view Solaris Presentation
Additional Resource: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/
Contact: NationalEventsTour@impact.org

Presentation Time Slot Sign-up

Teams will be allocated 15 minutes each to make their presentation and answer questions from the Judging Panel. Time slots begin at 9AM and will be assigned on a first-come first-serve basis.

Click here to sign your team up for a time!

Case Study Topics

1. Improving customer intelligence regarding ISV requirements
     - What is it that the ISV's want from a vendor?
2. Making OpenSolaris more attractive for the "professional" developers
     - What would make all developers wanting to develop on Sun's OS?
3. Enabling the sales teams to more accurately know/sell what is "already there"
     - Training, Webinar, contest...??
4. Solaris is not hip, cool and fun like Red hat!
     - What should we do about it... marketing?
5. ISV's are not seeing the demand from end users
     - How do we create more demand for Solaris with the end users?
6. Not as easy to use, compared to Linux
     - Is this perception or reality and why?
7. Changing Market Landscape
     - Must invest in Open Source apps and Red Shift opportunities.
8. Not making enough money on our IP
     - Need to monetize Solaris R&D - should it be free? Is there other ways to make money with Solaris?
9. Need to accelerate our go to market with Solaris adoption
     - Is there an iTunes model for Solaris?
10. Convince ISVs to develop and port on Sun's platform
     - What should Sun do to accomplish that task?
11. Understanding our customers experience with Solaris
     - Good or bad and why?
12. Others

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