and one year went by 

and one year went by

Opensolaris is one year old today, here we are, 365 days after sun released most of the solaris source code to the community
the days where people said opensolaris would fade away, that it was impossible for sun to create a community around it are over, people that predicted a dark future for the os have been slowly disappearing and are now being replaced by some who actually believe there is something in the road ahead.
i think there is no one true way to measure the success of the project but rather many little and no so little details:
The project generated so much interest that there are 14000 people subscribed to the opensolaris community, including myself. I have to get more involved in the Contents project and i promise i will as soon as i have some free time, i look forward to writing some more documentation
There are at least 5 opensolaris distributions out there (that was unthinkable 2 years ago)
people started contributing code to opensolaris, 100 put backs already
and many other things I will not mention mainly because other people have
I do want to highlight something, people are now talking about solaris, a world that was previously unknown for many people like me has opened its doors and is free for all, open for all.
2 years ago, solaris was only a dream for me
thank you, thanks to all the people involved in the community, to all those who made this thing happen