i've never liked the apache it ships with. idk why. just don't

service_fmri is the new SMF functionality of sol10. its to help make sol10 more "windowsy". however, there is a good side to it as it allows for concurrent services to start thus speeding up the boot time. svcs is really to help you see which services are running. you can make your own script to start up as a service with svcadm, svcfg and some scripting... both xml stuff and regular shell scripting.