[nailer]

Since about 2005 most large banks have started deploying on Linux for most new projects. The place I'm at now, which is one of the most conservative environments - NIS, heaps of Sol 8 under Vintage support, 15 year old home grown perl scripts for config management, etc - has a minimal amount of Linux skills amongst the day to day support staff, just declared Solaris a non-strategic platform.

[rbanffy]

The question is how many banks do you need to subsidize the evolution of OpenSolaris/Illumos? Considering what a Sun/Oracle support contract costs, not many.