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Agree.

Just a shame that Solaris wasn't Open Sourced sooner, as if it'd grown more traction we'd be in a different world now.

I think Linux kind of creeped up on them, and in the meantime Oracle got its grubby its on Sun, then embraced Linux itself.

Zones are /amazing/.

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Oracle only got its grubby on Sun, because no one else saw any value doing a counter offer, including Google after doing their Java curved ball to Sun's licensing.

IBM actually offered $7b, but was outbid by Oracle back then.

Yes they did, but nothing prevented them to do a counter-offer, which wasn't seen as being worthwhile.

Yeah, but it has taken like... forever, in a sense. It was in many ways quite the head start they had.

DTrace for example, that stuff is proper. Great to see whats happening with BPF on Linux these days.

I guess it speaks to the engineering efforts behind it all. Not an easy feat to integrate or bolt on. And not to mention the inertia of eco-systems of tooling on a well established platform such as Linux.

Interesting times ahead and great work, my favorite community! :)

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