Oracle Solaris "is not dead", as a supported product, at least,
Since it is officially supported up to year 2034.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris11life/long-live-solaris-11-until-at-least-2034-to-be-exact
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf
I think there is not many systems running on easy to find hardware, with
such a long support cycles and providing binary compatibility for the
software while upgrading.
illumos is an Opensolaris continuation as Solaris 11 is. (and that is
why it is still on-topic on Openindiana mailing list).
And illumos distributions are active, definitely open, alive and the
future is open source, long past 2034. :)
https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions
So efforts are best used under illumos distributions seeing the future,
which is not a surprising conclusion seeing how much more benefits open
source and free software give to individuals and organizations.
Interested parties looking to hire ex-Oracle Solaris related staff are
welcome to do so and contribute to illumos distributions.
illumos CDDL license that also permits creating file-based combined
work, also suggest to using illumos in company products, is welcomed
practice.
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