From: jgd@cix.co.uk   
      
   In article <10cdflq$5c0$2@reader2.panix.com>,   
   cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   That doesn't match my experience. Solaris was first released in 1992 and   
   had taken over by 1996. Sun released the Blade workstations in 2000, and   
   new Ultra workstations in 2006, and didn't discontinue them until 2008.   
   Until at least 2005, we had customers doing serious work on SPARC   
   workstations, although nobody was switching to them from other platforms.   
      
      
   Our stuff does gain significantly from 64-bit addressing; I could believe   
   fields that didn't need 64-bit gave up on Sun earlier.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   They tried that on us, but were deeply unconvincing.   
      
   They were expecting us to be impressed that they'd done JNI wrappers of   
   about ten functions from our 500+ function API. We said "Presumably you   
   have tools to generate this stuff automatically?" and they didn't   
   understand what we were talking about.   
      
   John   
      
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