This is patent nonsense. Sun lost because they were not price competitive. They thought they could command outrageous sums and 46% profit margins because they s

This is patent nonsense. Sun lost because they were not price competitive. They thought they could command outrageous sums and 46% profit margins because they sold UltraSPARC-based servers and in the case of AMD / intel servers because they bore the Sun Microsystems logo. Meanwhile Linux ran on shitty personal computer hardware and was just good enough for enough kids who didn't have a clue about correctness of operation or reliability and still to this day don't, as is often evident from many, many comments on the subject of GNU/Linux here. Sun Microsystems stubbornly refused to lower prices to undercut the generic shitty personal computer used as a server and that cost them the company. hp and IBM made the same mistake at expense of PA-RISC / HP-UX and POWER / AIX respectively. Oracle corporation is in the process of repeating that mistake. They all thought they could get away with outrageous profit margins and pricing. It's like once they started shipping servers to enterprises they all lost compass. Meanwhile, the whole market commoditized. They all wouldn't accept that. Now they've been reduced to rubble. hp "Enterprise" is missing in action somewhere peddling a server here and there, IBM started whoring itself around as a "re-invented" service company (the next "Computer Associates"?) and other than Exadata I don't know of a single business willingly buying Oracle servers. Yeah, it's very hard to predict how that will end. "Very hard". At any rate, all of that has nothing to do with Bryan. Zero.