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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"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."
Quiet...can you here it, a collective sigh of relief from the Solaris x86 support team (Sorry, I couldn't resist
And as for "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)..."
You're a braver man than I. I don't even want to ask what kind of disaster recovery plan you have?!?
By the way, on your Solaris/SPARC project. You shouldn't have to use a Solaris/x86 box to manage it...any linux "du jour" box should do. But that's OK, the more the Solaris the merrier.