One of my pet peeve: I really wished Solaris was more like the Mac OSX... very multimedia friendly for creating your own media and easy to use for someone like me (not a programmer. no patience for command line)
You don't have to be a UNIX programmer to use a Mac... you don't have to play command line games to see what ZFS has to provide in Leopard. ALTHOUGH, if you want to use command line, you can. I'm a geek... but not that type of geek.
Trust me, I want to use Solaris, but for a media guy who wants to capture and edit audio/video, create graphics all while doing email, play music, instant messaging, video chats and browsing the web... it's not happening.
I might not be the target consumer for Solaris, but I still want to use what my company creates... if it was doing what I needed to do for my daily job and my personal life effectively, I'd switch in a heartbeat and beta test the heck out of it.
let me indulge you with a dream:
Looking Glass running on Solaris 11, on a sexy-looking high-powered low power (eco-friendly) laptop, with audio and video capture/editing capabilities -video and screencasts- (looking out for our developers trying to share coding best practices and cool stuff they're creating), Blue-Ray RW drive, local calendar with mobile device (phone, iphone) and web (google cal) universal synch, text/audio/video chat tool that can integrate to skype/AOL-IM/Yahoo-IM/others, photo library application, open office, mozilla suite for browser/mail, social synchronizer (blogs, vblogs, facebook, linkedin, etc.) to let you know up-to-the-minute if someone left you a comment or superpoked you, some cool high-powered emulator technology to let users install and run iTunes, photoshop and dreamweaver apps and the such...
and it shall be called: "Eclipse" (the Sun, the Moon and the Earth... our everything)
Again.. I'm probably not the targeted user base for Solaris :-p