Oracle could stop ignoring customers...
I've placed no less than three calls to Oracle to set up maintenance contracts for my Solaris boxes. That's the only way you can download Recommended clusters and other updates. I've yet to have one call returned.
I'm running Solaris on commodity hardware, and it runs damned well. I've always preferred Solaris over Linux because it HAD a reliable commercial backing and I just like it better. It's been a rock-solid operating environment on any hardware, be it Sun SPARC or x86 or commodity. But it especially runs well on Sun hardware. I've been given anecdotes about a local college switching from Sun hardware, which took massive beatings during student registration and financial aid season, to Linux machines. The latter went down spectacularly.
In any case, I was concerned Oracle would mis-manage or just kill Solaris out-right when it bought Sun. I was particular disappointed that Sun couldn't adapt to the New World. Remember when it was the "dot" in "dot-com?"
Paris, goes down spectacularly.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
