> This was just as obvious then as it is now. It is just that Solaris fans refused to see it. Solaris fans (yours truly included) saw it just fine. But Oracle

> This was just as obvious then as it is now. It is just that Solaris fans refused to see it. Solaris fans (yours truly included) saw it just fine. But Oracle has been a poor steward, and if it had any chance of being rescued, well, they gave it none. And their fame for suing and squeezing their own customers didn't help... every company ran away from it once it was an Oracle property, and suddenly there was no way to run most commercial software on it (My employer was impacted for example).