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Solaris and OpenSolaris - do they still have a viable future?

The latest buzz around Solaris has whet my appetite for a Sun technology again. With the massive mind and market share that Linux - now virtually mainstream - enjoys, OpenSolaris’ seemingly hopeless position as being #3 behind an already distant second placer (BSD) on the open source OS front made me think that Sun might eventually just decide to throw in the towel. This is not to say that the ubercool technologies in Solaris like ZFS would vanish - heaven forbid - but that Solaris the OS would slowly be left to fade into oblivion. It seems however that Sun has a lot of fight left in them whether it be Java versus .NET or Solaris versus Linux/BSD.

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