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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FYI, a feature of Solaris Express 4/2005 is that CD/DVD DMA *is* enabled by default; we got tired of getting bashed for trying to be compatible with old, broken hardware (you can now disable CD/DVD DMA if you need to). This is why installs have gotten faster in builds *after* S10 FCS.
We (Solaris team) are also looking at other ways to improve the speed of installs. One existing problem is that we don't stream the data off of the CD/DVD device very effectively. We're hoping to improve that, and IIRC some preliminary results show about a 30% improvement in install speed. But that's at the chewing-gum-and-spaghetti prototype stage right now.