{"id":24,"date":"2006-03-27T07:20:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:02:39","slug":"onstar-its-pretty-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/onstar-its-pretty-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"OnStar, it’s pretty cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nIn the beginning of February, I bought a new vehicle – a GMC Sierra<\/a> pickup. You may ask yourself, “why would a tech guy buy a truck?” And that would be a fair question. <\/p>\n

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\nThe answer is I’ve been driving trucks my entire life, having grown up in the state of Ohio in and around farms. In California, I’ve discovered that having a truck is incredibly valuable, from routine hauling of items (my wife’s latest garage sale\/auction score) to the mundane (trash to the dump) to the fun (dog and surf board\/kayak) to the beach.<\/p>\n

\nOne of the reasons I chose this truck rather than say the traditional Ford F150 was because I wanted to see how OnStar<\/a> worked when you live with it day to day. It’s one thing to see a demo, it’s another thing to actually attempt to use the service day in and day out. (BTW, I got a GREAT overall deal on the truck too, the “other” reason I chose it…) I’m delighted that OnStar is also a Sun<\/a> customer, so much the better to make our customers successful.<\/p>\n

\nFor those of you who don’t know what OnStar is<\/a>, it’s a telemetry and communications package built-in to vehicles that enable a number of services like remote diagnostics, presence, alarms, and communications services. As a subscriber, you can choose from one of two services, Safe & Secure or Connections & Directions. <\/p>\n

\nI really admire the OnStar marketing and demand generation team, they’ve made this a household brand and the on-air testimonials work. Evidence, my spouse, who could care less about cars or technologies, said “Oh, great, OnStar, now someone will know if we crash and help.” I nearly dropped my drink when she said that.<\/p>\n

\nThe point to this post is this, when you think about the Sun Connection<\/a>, I’d like to take everything that is good in my OnStar experience and translate that to Sun’s technologies. We’re already enroute, Sun Connection is now embedded in Solaris 10<\/a> and beyond. This provides great coverage of our software and hardware, but, there are more products coming with Sun Connection embedded. We’ve got a great service in the market with Sun Update Connection<\/a> and more to come. It’s an exciting time to be working in this space, I absolutely can not wait to talk about some of our new services soon to appear. (Hint: Get a My Sun Connection account now, they’ll appear in the Fresh Tools<\/a> tab far in advance of release.)<\/p>\n

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