wrt hp
see http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6765-Oracle-Solaris-Support-on-HP-Proliant-and-BladeServers.html
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Tim the thing that you missed here is that Sun is selling Enterprise support on the 6 monthly releases of OpenSolaris. That includes the metal contracts. That support contract gives you the same level of support on OpenSolaris and the support repository that you purchase on Solaris 10.
Alan.