Hi guys.
I've read all the posts so far and I'm amazed.
I work in the telecom industry for several years.
ALL the telecom\cellular\ISP and other companies i know use solaris on
more than 90% of their servers.
Some of you write that many ppl know only Solaris 7\8 and this is
their perception of the Sun's os.
It maybe true for some places. But the picture i see is very
different. Sun has done a good job to push Solaris10.
I also know many startups and and small companies that have moved to
Solaris on x86. Mostly porting from Linux due to performance problems
and scalability. There is no virtualisation method yet that has the
same advantages and almost zero overhead like Zones.
The problem is that few talk about it openly.
I get the feeling that many ppl think that anything else than Linux is
"uncool" for some reason.
Despite what you say, i see a rising of Solaris in the next 3-4 years.
I might even say it will replace Linux in many companies.
You are right, Solaris is dying.
But those are all the Solaris 7/8/9 boxes.
Solaris 10 is rising, it sells more that REDHAT ! And i guess it
haven't even reached 30% of it's commercial potential.

BTW, i use OpenSolaris on my laptop and home PC.