> There was no Linux when Sun took that decision. True, but initially Solaris (and the compiler unbundling) had no impact on the Sun user base. The initial re

> There was no Linux when Sun took that decision. True, but initially Solaris (and the compiler unbundling) had no impact on the Sun user base. The initial release of Solaris was... not that great. I remember universities and research labs (entities which provided a lot of the open source effort) held out upgrading for a long time and stayed on SunOS for years. So by the time most organizations finally upgraded to Solaris, Linux was established but not very strong. The timing was just right (or wrong, depending on POV) for the compiler unbundling to start pushing people (me included) to Linux. (Although then I joined Sun and lived happily in the world of Solaris for many years.)