As a follow-up to the About Solaris part, and as everybody know by now the OpenSolaris project has evolved recently, sort of. I really didn't have time to write about this, but because others have done a really good job at express themselves on this subject, I will aggregate some of them here since the whole opinion of them all summarize mine pretty well.
About the leaked (?) information itself:
About the position on the end of the OpenSolaris per-se:
About the succession:
Overall thoughts, which tend to describe very well my mood after thinking about this subject as a whole: