Sun failed to make money. They had great products but failed to make money out of them. Oracle did great for some time (resurrected SPARC and Solaris) but they

Sun failed to make money. They had great products but failed to make money out of them. Oracle did great for some time (resurrected SPARC and Solaris) but they also made a lot of the great people leave (Nexenta, Joyent etc etc).