&gt; By <i>eating Linux&#x27;s lunch</i> I meant how good, reliable and capable the zones and lx-branded zones technology is.<p>Could you then use idioms in their proper meaning, please? Because I only
protested against claim that zones have taken a market share of Linux
containers, which is very untrue, and at the same time not the claim you have
made.<p>&gt; As for <i>those people</i>, they had to learn Linux too; they can go back to the roots and learn a real UNIX the correct way now, and be glad that they have the opportunity to do so.<p>So, zones provide better platform because people can go back and learn
Solaris? Or what?<p>Zones need to provide something tangible over containers for people to invest
in learning different platform. Having just another tool, which merely does
what one already can do with containers, only slightly slicker, but severly
limited in applicability because parent platform is not familiar to all the
colleagues, doesn&#x27;t look like a good trade.<p>And note that we were only talking about familiarity. There are still other
reasons, like little developers working on a given Solaris derivative, which
doesn&#x27;t give much confidence that any bugs that occur would be fixed, or
a concern that the supported hardware list will be long enough.