Also, for the record, it is objectively untrue that all new and innovative work stopped. My primary disappointment was the silent discontinuation of the OpenSolaris project.

The delta between what you could get between Solaris 10 and most anything else at the time (free or otherwise) was very impressive. Zones/containers had little equal (maybe FreeBSD jails, but so much nicer to manage), ZFS made me almost cry that I’d never have to deal with veritas again, and DTrace allowed safe, live debugging whenever I felt like it. I’d add SMF there somewhere if it wasn’t configured via XML.

Sure, IPS is technically superior to apt or yum (well, anything is better than yum), but it’s not ground breaking better than what you have elsewhere. 11’s security is indeed improved as they took what was already done of crossbow, and implemented it, then cancelled the rest.

I was using hyperbole, but the general feeling to those of us that were customers was of a large cutback in work. And that was before oracle jacked up the prices.

I miss Solaris, but there is no reason I would recommend it to anybody today, even if you had to manage your own hardware and not be on a major cloud vendor.

As for 11’s security is indeed improved as they took what was already done of crossbow, and implemented it, then cancelled the rest. -- that's shortchanging an incredible amount of work that was done that was not related to crossbow at all. Crossbow, while great, was hardly the largest or most important project that was being worked on although it was certainly one of them.

FYI, I’m verbally harsh because as I said I miss Solaris and miss having an economic reason to use it.