Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th Jun 2005 04:11 UTC
Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. 
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And the more Solaris joins the OSS community, the less you will see a difference between Linux and Solaris, as each will start sharing their technology. And hopefully someday, most distro's will ship with both a Linux and a Solaris kernel. Boot in one, create VM's and run your apps in appropriate containers ran by appropriate kernels.
From what I understand Sun have created a licence that make it hard for Solaris technology to spread into other open source projects using more commonly used licenses such as the GPL.
This would mean that a Solaris Linux unification would have to take place on the Solaris side and as the community around a free Solaris currently is quite small, if at all existent, that may take some time.