Linked by Will Senn on Tue 26th Apr 2005 20:14 UTC
Wow! With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems has done a marvelous job of bringing Solaris fully into the x86 world. Gone are the days when Solaris only runs on Sun hardware or when it only runs well on Sun hardware. Solaris 10 comes with greatly expanded off-the-shelf x86 hardware compatibility and a license that is hard to beat. It's a binary right to use and Open Solaris, the open source version is soon to come. IT Managers that have been wanting to bring a stable, scalable Operating Environment into their network infrastructures, but who have been unwilling to commit to the Sun hardware platform, for various reasons, are now free, pun intended, to bring Solaris on board and to run it on the hardware of their choice. 
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Sun will continue playing NIH until the very end. Solaris 10 is a great product but great products alone don't do it, otherwise OSX would be over 20% market share after three years on the market.
The problem is that the market has written off Sun for dead. Buyers of Sun tech are almost certainly part of a pre-existing installed base...Solaris 10 won't win over many converts from Linux or even Windows Server (yuck), if simply because there is a good chance the OS will not fully support their existing hardware.
Sun could have been RedHat+Novell+the linux part of IBM by now if they had the brass to just admit they were peddling a dying architecture back in 2001. But no, they are going to do NIH right into the grave, maybe that is why BusinessWeek lists McNealy among the top execs who should "quit immediately".