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I don't see why not, as long as you have a spare partition, or one you can resize to make room. It is certainly possible to have several Linux distros on one PC.
It would probably be best to install the boot manager of either Ubuntu or Solaris to the root partition rather than the MBR, and chain boot from the other one.
If you want to share data between them you could use symbolic links, but you would need to synchronise user names and user IDs. Debian based distros (including Ubuntu) start user IDs at 1000, RPM ones tend to start at 500. I don't know about Solaris.
Alternatively you could install VirtualBox in Ubuntu and run Solaris in a virtual machine (or vice versa if VirtualBox is available for Solaris - it probably is, as it's another Oracle product).
Last edited by john2; 05-16-2013 at 08:38 AM.
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