Sun Microsystems casts deep roots in Open Source software and recently has made it the core of it's software strategy. The duo Solaris/OpenSolaris are key players in Sun's Open Source strategy and they gain significant momentum as the platform of choice for organizations and developers.

In this talk, we present and discuss how Sun approaches Solaris and some of the key characteristics, innovations and eventually differentiators Solaris has brought into the market, like containers, ZFS filesystem and Dynamic Tracing (Dtrace). Live demonstration of most of these features will be presented to the audience.