My comments were sincere, and from a place of familiarity with and appreciation for Zones. Joyent is great, SmartOS looks cool, and we&#x27;ve worked with and supported Zones in our products longer than anybody that I know of (Sun paid Jamie to add Zones support to Webmin back when Zones was in development; it goes <i>way</i> back). Heck, I don&#x27;t think any of our big competitors even support Zones (and I know why: nobody&#x27;s buying Zones support...we have at <i>least</i> 100+ times more Linux users). I&#x27;m on your team, when it comes to talking nice about Zones. Great technology, that was many years ahead of Linux.<p>But, be real here. Linux likely sees more contributions in a month than SmartOS has had in its whole existence. The size and scope of the ecosystem is just vastly different. Most people have never even heard of SmartOS. And, Linux has caught up. It&#x27;s always been a leader on full virtualization (Xen was developed first for Linux, after all), but it&#x27;s also now got several great container options, including core kernel support than runs deep. There&#x27;s not much you can do with SmartOS that you can&#x27;t do with Linux today; and, the reverse is not true.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong: SmartOS seems really cool, and I want to spend some time with it in the near future. We&#x27;ve always had a soft spot for Solaris (despite not selling a lot to Solaris users, since they&#x27;re so vastly outnumbered by Linux users), and there&#x27;s no one I can imagine better for the task of pushing it forward than Joyent.