The "old" Sun recognized and encouraged the hobbyist community - that if people played with older gear at home, they were more likely to recommend/spec it at wo

The "old" Sun recognized and encouraged the hobbyist community - that if people played with older gear at home, they were more likely to recommend/spec it at work... Solaris and patches/updates, software suites (LDAP server etc) "free unless you want/need a support contract". "New" Sun after the Oracle acquisition: "Unless you're a business paying us money for support, we don't care, and you get NOTHING." So, people stopped using and playing with Solaris/SPARC at home, and eventually stopped using it at work too.