8/10    Free Solaris...
                \_ with how many proofs of purchase from Microsoft Corn Flakes?
        Non-commercial developers can order their copy of the Solaris
        operating environment at http://www.sun.com/developers while
        students, educators and researchers should access
        http://www.sun.com/edu/solaris to place an order.
        \_ there's so many flavors of unix that, aside from the linux vs.
           bsd discussion below, no one has really said what the
           advantages of using one flavor over another.  So what's the
           argument for Solaris?
           \_ A Microsoft-like popularity in the unix world.  Most everything
              compiles under Solaris.  Solaris is a pseudo unix standard.
              Note: I'm not a Solaris bigot.  This is just MHO.
           \_ MP support is much older/more advanced/more stable under Solaris.
              Linux & *BSD multi-processing/threading is not mature (yet).