
Today Oracle released its latest version of Solaris technology, the
Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 release. It includes a large number of new features not found in either Oracle Solaris 10 or previous OpenSolaris releases including ZFS encryption and deduplication, network-based packaging and provisioning systems, network virtualization, optimized I/O for NUMA platforms and optimized platform support including support for Intel's latest Nehalem and SPARC T3. In addition, Oracle Solaris 10 support is available from within a container/zone so migration of existing systems is greatly simplified. The release is available under a variety of licenses including a supported commercial license on a wide variety of x86 and SPARC platforms.
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Why didn't it catch on when it was open sourced? Mostly Licensing, Sun's own seeming total lack of coherent direction, and the fact it was sort of a headache to deal with for people used to Linux based systems.