A pertinent article re Solaris v Linux: Seven ways Solaris can beat Linux Sun needs to make a splash if it wants to win back its Unix OS market share by Neil McAllister / InfoWorld / January 22, 2007 http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/22/04OPopenent_1.html 1. Raise Solaris' profile. 2. License OpenSolaris under the Gnu GPL. 3. Ship a complete, gorgeous desktop system. 4. Come up with a killer app. 5. Offer hardware support that's second to none. 6. Become the OS of choice for developers. 7. Virtualization all the way.