What was the turning point for you at Sun? For me it was Slowlaris.
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I looked at Solaris recently and it still sucks. Sad to see all that work come to naught but it happens.
What Unix (or unix like system) doesn't suck? The linux distributions are all fairly sloppy, the BSDs are fine but starting to have issues as so much open source code isn't being tested there.
Not defending Solaris here, but it seems to me that all the unix systems have become a little sloppy recently.
Commercial Unix is as dead as commercial compilers. Which is to say not completely dead, but pretty darn close. Trying to make money off of an OS, a compiler, a source management system is a non-starter these days. Yeah, Github is a thing but that's not source management (even though everyone thinks it is), that's a UI and a very very constrained work flow.