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Re:Ask HN: Anyone still work on Solaris every day? by ynks366 on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:03AM (#28324464)
Sort of. I work for a defense contractor, so we use an air gapped sytems. I log into gateway servers that run Solaris. Heck, until a few weeks ago, It was even on Sunrays thin clients. However, I then just ssh onto linux servers. I do occasionally support older prorgrams on solaris and other ancient unix systems. Found systems without Perl on it. And once got a bash error report that had some MIT email address.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone still work on Solaris every day? by orionblastar on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:46AM (#28286748)
I used to be a federal contractor in 1996 1997 and worked with Solaris and HP-UX and other Unix like operating systems.

As far as I know they still use it, Sun kept getting defense contracts but some systems have been replaced with Linux.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone still work on Solaris every day? by drost on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:18PM (#28294409)
When I was in the Navy, the equipment I worked on was all Solaris
Re:Ask HN: Anyone still work on Solaris every day? by h2odragon on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @06:53AM (#28287106)
Makes me want to ask: Has anybody (excepting NASA, poor sods) still got running SUN (not oracle) hardware?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone still work on Solaris every day? by runjake on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:59AM (#28290584)
We had Ultra gear and even a Classic and an IPX running until 2019.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone still work on Solaris every day? by the_only_law on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:45PM (#28291377)
I actually saw a job the other day looking for a Solaris kernel developer, so someone must be.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone still work on Solaris every day? by mbrodersen on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:48AM (#28298682)
A friend of mine is working with a customer that use Solaris in production.