From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   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 loosing money pretty   
   >fast.   
      
   Oh totally.  Sun was a shell of its former self by then.  Oracle   
   didn't care; everything was done through a web browser anyway.   
      
   I'd argue that Sun more or less abandoned the workstation market   
   when they switched to SVR4 and away from BSD with the move to   
   Solaris from SunOS 4.  I think also the focus shifted   
   dramatically once Java came onto the scene; Sun seemed to move   
   away from its traditional computer business in order to focus   
   more full on java and its ecosystem.   
      
   Their initial success was because they built the computer that   
   they themselves wanted to use, and came up with a computer a   
   bunch of other people wanted to use, too.  It was a joy to use a   
   Sun workstation at the time.  But then they stopped doing that.   
      
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