You know, I used to be rather annoyed with Solaris. Why? In the days of the dot-com boom, job interviews I had trying to get a systems administrator position would go like this:

Interviewer So, Sam, how much Solaris experience do you have?

Me I have five years of Linux experience.

Interviewer But, that doesn't count. How many years have you been using Solaris

Me Well...

Interviewer (In so many words) Linux is not a real OS. We only hire Solaris people. Bye.

I got out of the trap of working tech support and SQA by working for, of all companies, Microsoft, as a contract programmer. Microsoft looked good enough on my resume that it was pretty easy to get a dot-com job after that. At least for the year or so before the who dot-com thing went kaput.

Now the surviving dot-coms are moving to Linux to save costs (Amazon and IMDB both now use Linux for their web servers), many Solaris people are on the street desperately looking for work, along with all of the Linux people who used to work for Linuxcare (before the layoffs), icast, VA Linux (before the layoffs), and so on.

As an aside, the companies with the most arrogant Solaris people are the companies which first went under once the dot-com party ended.