> pet project of some fairly unknown software company IIRC, illumos is a loose community full of former Solaris devs, there's no one company behind the illumos

> pet project of some fairly unknown software company IIRC, illumos is a loose community full of former Solaris devs, there's no one company behind the illumos kernel. Joyent, the company behind the SmartOS distribution, I'd say is far from "unknown" — they started that whole node.js thing after all!