FAA using Solaris?

How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century

Wow, since Solaris is dead, I'd be afraid to fly.  NOT...This is a great feather in the Solaris hat.

Sun's
open-source OpenSolaris/ZFS/SunFire server/Thumper storage
infrastructure—which features built-in, state-of-the-art virtualization
capability—was a key building block on which the FAA IT evaluation
group settled. Some of the new software is already being used in the
air traffic system; ZFS (Sun's open-source Zettabyte File System) is
being used in the FAA's air traffic data center.



"The FAA uses a large quantity of Sun Solaris servers in a variety of configurations to support some of our noncritical business applications,"
Andy Isaksen, manager of the Communications Infrastructure Engineering
Team for NADIN and architect of the original mainframe system, said.
"ZFS is being used on at least one service within the Air Traffic
Organization Enterprise Data Center."