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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Well, not really...
I have yet to upgrade my X86 Solaris 9 box to Sol 10, but I have put it on my Ultra 5. I like what I see, but... I've also recently upgraded the Linux partition (it's dual-boot) to Debian Sarge and was favorably impressed. I think it's great that Sol 10 has advanced, but it has by no means slam-dunked Linux, hype notwithstanding, nor will it. If Sun stays in business, then Linux and Solaris will coexist. Linux does not need to 'defeat' Solaris (whatever that means). If it doesn't, we still have Linux. Either way, Linux wins.