may I carefully remind here that almost all breakthrough inventions in the past and present had been made by Big Blue that still holds most of these patents? There would be no tape, no disk, without them ... And that they still put roughly 50% of their net income into development of new innovations?
Open Source is not the answer to everything, and neither is an IT world with just the big players in it ... in the Unix world every derivate has its pro's and con's ... and I really doubt that this Oracle-Sun deal will keep solaris alive at all - what is a shame. Maybe a fate like being bought by IBM or HP would have been not so final. Nobody knows.

Regards
zxmaus