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 is getting on board, I guess late is better than not at all.
Getting in bed with AMD when they did was an utter stroke of genius (for them) and should keep them well in business for the forseeable future. It even helps them look more "cool".
But Sun has a huge amount of inertia to overcome with the installed Linux base out there.
In our case at work we're pretty heavily entrenched in Linux.
We've got a side project that had to use solaris, but they're running sparc hardware. We do have one P3 666 box with solaris 9 on it for doing admin tasks for that project.
Admin on those boxes is so way different from on the Linux side that migration isn't even something I'd consider exploring or talking about.
Not to mention that the one guy who's full time IT and myself run Linux full time and game heavily. I even overclock and hack on my own hardware through the drivers. With Sun that type of thing isn't even a remote option, I would never stick it on my home desktop.
And yes, we have serious usage here. About 2TB spinning storage per employee, we're probably pushing 60TB I think now (98% of it IDE raid5/some raid6)...