From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:13 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:   
      
   > In article <10can8q$dop$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
   > cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:   
   >   
   >> I don't think [Oracle] were ever interested in Sun's earlier,   
   >> traditional markets: workstations and so forth were uninteresting.   
   >   
   > By the time of the takeover, Sun wasn't very interested in SPARC   
   > workstations, because their market share was close to zero. x86-64   
   > Windows and Linux had demolished all the traditional Unix workstations   
   > by then. The Sun server business was still going, but l[o]sing money   
   > pretty fast.   
      
   Sun continued to be reasonably profitable for a while after the collapse   
   of the entire Unix workstation market, as I recall, because SPARC machines   
   were the platform of choice for setting up these newfangled “Internet”   
   servers.   
      
   Linux was around and growing, but information about it could only spread   
   by word of mouth, not because any big company was behind it. Eventually   
   that did overcome Sun’s sheer marketing visibility, but it didn’t happen   
   overnight.   
      
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