1) http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+avs/?xpage=print package tools are not same, but pkgadd is in OpenSolaris too
2) Sometimes funny as even Sun CC can't help in some situations 3) You can buy support so yes, it's production stable as any other OS with official releases, updates and support at least from community 4) Looks like no. At least for near future. I'm missing core installation option too. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org