Solaris is dying? Solaris support is poor? Oracle not investing in Solaris anymore? Seriously-who are making these claims because the facts state otherwise?

According to Gartner, Solaris has actually been growing marketshare (within albeit a shrinking pie). Gartner in February has been quoted as saying "Oracle has been able to increase its Unix market share during 2014 (breaking a seven-year pattern of declining share); the share gains have been maintained through 2015" and "Solaris is particularly well-suited to users who want to concentrate on running Oracle software workloads, and there is some early evidence that Oracle is able to attract some migrating HP-UX and/or AIX users who would otherwise have probably migrated to Linux on x86."

See here: https://www.gartner.com/doc/3220521/vendor-blink-battle-unix-viable

According to the latest Server sales figures from these analysts, Solaris shipped on about $1.6BN worth of servers during 2015 (that’s about 52K servers mostly SPARC from Oracle and Fujitsu and some x86 sold by Dell/HP/Lenovo reselling Solaris on their systems) . Over 1.6 BILLION dollars in revenue tied to Solaris during 2015. Looking at most of the numbers for 2016, seems to be about the same. Doesn’t seem like a dead business to me??

Considering that HP-UX is dead now that Itanium is dead, and IBM has switched predominantly to Linux on Power, leaving AIX in the dust, seems Solaris is the only viable UNIX choice and viable alternative to Linux. Want to live in a world controlled mostly by one person (Linus Torvalds) and Microsoft (Windows)? Not me. Monopolies are never a good thing for driving innovation.

And finally, during Oracle OpenWorld, the Solaris execs discussed the Solaris roadmap till 2019 and highlighted that the next major release of Solaris (whether its 11.4 or 12.0) has over 1400 features/capabilities. I wouldn't call that a dying OS, nor anywhere close to dead. Sounds like Oracle is trying to determine what to call the next release. Always complicated coming out with a major new release version as it automatically requires ISVs to re-certify/test/validate and therefore delays support and therefore revenue. We shall see soon hopefully what this is really about. I'm positive on the outcome.