ZDNet: In Wake of Solaris’ Renaissance, Predictions of its Death were Obviously Premature

“Despite predictions of its demise, Unix–and in particular,
Sun’s Solaris flavor–appears to be convalescing instead of
following the downward spiral that’s typical for operating systems
that fall from grace (the PalmOS for example). In June 2004, after
Open Source Initiative president Eric Raymond penned an open letter
asking Sun to open source Java, I asked Raymond if he was thinking
about penning a similar letter to Sun about Solaris. At that time,
OpenSolaris–the open source version of Solaris–did not exist.
Raymond replied ‘Who the hell cares about Solaris? On current
trends, Linux is going to crush it like a grape within three
years…'”

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