Congratulations to Bryan Cantrill, Stephen Hahn, Adam Leventhal, Cindi McGuire, Andy Rudoff and Mike Shapiro who were chosen for their work on DTrace and Predictive Self-Healing in Solaris 10.

In the related article, two things of interest stand out for me:

Mike's comment "When you look at Solaris 10, if you were to characterize the innovations that are there, none of them are really changing the programming model for applications, the operating system is empowering people to do something with the software that they already had or the ideas that they already had of how to solve problems". This comment gets right to the core of why these features are so revolutionary, your existing applications can be improved simply by being run on Solaris 10, AND they're guaranteed to work.

The second thing is a statement from the writer of the article, Neill McAllister, "Solaris arguably remains the only source of innovation in the enterprise Unix market". Personally, I think Solaris is one of the few places where *operating system innovation* is happening today. These guys (and the hundreds of others working on Solaris) make it an absolute blast to work in the Solaris team, my job is so much easier than my counterparts at HP, IBM, RedHat etc. Technorati Tags Solaris UNIX DTrace Predictive Self-Healing HP IBM RedHat