Those stories were unsubstianted FUD. Solaris is alive and kicking. I would know, because I am working on a particular component that will be part of the next version of Solaris.
It's great. I love it. I wish Solaris was still open sourced and the open source aspect of it better managed than it used to be in OpenSolaris days so that there wouldn't be any need of a fork but I like it.
> especially since most of the original Solaris talent left Oracle after the OpenSolaris fiasco in 2010 and went to work on illumos
A lot of people left indeed. But most people? Hmm...