I don't think Solaris has a bright future. It's evolving too slow, too many restrictions, too many problems. Just look at their attempt to update their/bin/ksh from ksh88 to ksh93 - they're working on it since a year and they are still not finished. The ksh93 integration project takes an eternity or two while Linux does the same job in two weeks or a month. This shows the great failure of the Opensolaris project. They're too slow, often twelve times slower than Linux. Sun still has superior features, but at the current evolution rate it is just a matter of time when Linux becomes superior compared to Solaris and their management is deaf and blind and ignores the problem
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I don't think Solaris has a bright future. It's evolving too slow, too many restrictions, too many problems. Just look at their attempt to update their /bin/ksh from ksh88 to ksh93 - they're working on it since a year and they are still not finished. The ksh93 integration project takes an eternity or two while Linux does the same job in two weeks or a month. This shows the great failure of the Opensolaris project. They're too slow, often twelve times slower than Linux. Sun still has superior features, but at the current evolution rate it is just a matter of time when Linux becomes superior compared to Solaris and their management is deaf and blind and ignores the problem