I've just had this pointed out to me which I think is worth quoting:
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Secondly I find it incredibly hard to start developing things on the operating system.
I may be irrelevant here, but there are rapid application development tools in modern computing world. One of them could be packaged for OpenIndiana. I am talking about Lazarus - a RAD environment for Free Pascal compiler. Having Lazarus for OpenIndiana would provide an easy-to-follow path for Windows developers who want to develop for UNIX. See http://lazarus.freepascal.org/ and
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_on_Solaris .
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openindiana.general/9206
I could do with revisiting the Wiki page now that + 1.0, but at the moment time does not permit that.
