Shouldn't that be in imperfect tense, asked?

As we all stem from Africa we then have been without all your wisdom.

Two comments. 1. Not only is Linux the biggest fish, it's by far the ugliest too 2. OpenSolaris development wouldn't die if Oracle only layed off the bottom 10%. They'd have to start picking from the positive sigma side...

Yupp, exactly the scenario I can see coming.

Well, all the other high-end IT companies are also down around the same (3-4-5%) so the market isn't actually saying anything about this.

Well, I've actually done nothing more than showing them there are alternatives to Linux. The 16 year boy was tired of all problems he faced with Ubuntu and is now a happy hacker with OpenSolaris 2008.11. Time Slider is really nice for kids hacking and then possibility to go back in time is A Good Thing. They both started out with Linux when they were around 12 when they found Windows to main stream (which they started with at around 7).

I think you don't really follow what happens out there. I've two boys, 19 and 16, and they both like to hack. In their community it's OpenSolaris that is the bleeding edge and Linux is just mainstream. You just wait...

But why? Solaris is superior to any other Unix or Linux so killing it should have been the most stupid idea they could have come up with.

Someone who has already thought of this... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/technology/24wafer.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Finally Microsoft will give up their so called operating system and go for UNIX.