Sorry, should have said "tech" employer, and this is referring to Sun and its ecosystem. A few years earlier I gave a talk to a local University about the job market and asked the comp sci students to have a showing of hands as to whether they thought they'd work on Windows or Solaris when they graduated. Most hands went for Windows. Then I showed the local job statistics: Sun Solaris was number one.
How fantastically different to my experience. I graduated 2010 in Australia, and we were just entering into the pre-cloud age. A lot of us expected to either move to SV or just work at local consultancies for banks or insurance companies (which I did). 10 years earlier, I would have gone to work at Sun!
I come from Melbourne and know that there are several rather large multimational engineering centers in Melbourne around this time period. Ericsson, NEC and Robert Bosch comes to my mine..
I thought Solaris is being completely eclipsed by Linux.
Even windows are surprising because hardly anything except gaming and limited local clients are windows. Granted some people choose to develop on Windows.
