For what it's worth, I've been at Joyent for six years now. It's still a great place to work, and we're still fully invested in SmartOS. Samsung has some pretty seriously large computing workloads and they bought us to use our technology.
I would note also that while we have had staff come and go over the years, I don't believe there was a mass exodus of Sun alumni -- indeed, since the recent ahem reprioritisation of Solaris at Oracle we've picked up a bunch of new Sun alumni!
In short, we're keeping the dream alive and doing the work we think is important. The world has space for more than one approach to systems software, and we're keen to keep working on ours!
I would note also that while we have had staff come and go over the years, I don't believe there was a mass exodus of Sun alumni -- indeed, since the recent ahem reprioritisation of Solaris at Oracle we've picked up a bunch of new Sun alumni!
In short, we're keeping the dream alive and doing the work we think is important. The world has space for more than one approach to systems software, and we're keen to keep working on ours!