This a thousand times. Sun was killing Solaris way before Oracle acquired it. Because Sun was at the beginning of that era, people look at it with rosy colored

This a thousand times. Sun was killing Solaris way before Oracle acquired it. Because Sun was at the beginning of that era, people look at it with rosy colored glasses. It had terrible leadership and didn't understand how to fully embrace open source (speaking strictly about OpenSolaris, they never really wanted share control of anything, form a community, etc).