Sun was losing money so they had to sell. It was a screwed up business that had a lot of great open source software being built. Hardware is hard. My outside

Sun was losing money so they had to sell. It was a screwed up business that had a lot of great open source software being built. Hardware is hard. My outsiders prospective is that Sun tried hard to make money at it by giving away the software. They failed. Red Hat seems to do this better, they open source their software and charge for support. I think Sun would be here today if they operated more like Red Hat and offered a Nexenta style product with a commercial license and support than trying to do hardware.