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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"Solaris x86 installs flawlessly on HP/Compaq Proliant hardware."
This is where the parts-bin PC critics come up short. Sun knows where to start in getting Solaris x86 going--the companies who sell the most x86 servers by far, such as HP, Dell, and IBM. If I had a business with a rack or two of HP servers ready for a software upgrade, why not try Solaris on a few of them as a pilot? Put Solaris on them and migrate a few of the web apps or databases over, see how they work out.