"I always wonder why it never took off." It did take off and had a long and productive life. Many, many of the early ISPs and webhosting providers were built

"I always wonder why it never took off." It did take off and had a long and productive life. Many, many of the early ISPs and webhosting providers were built on Solaris 2.6 and "7". In the late nineties it was very common to go into a datacenter and see racks full of ultra 2 boxes stacked on one another ... If you went to college between 1992 and 1999 you were almost assured to log into a SunOS or Solaris system to read your email or ftp or whatever. It was only when the dot-com money dried up that people (including myself) made the switch to PC based servers in an effort to save money.