The difference is SUN doesn't have a business model anymore. Hardware is now a commodity. What business do you want to be in? One where the price of your pro

The difference is SUN doesn't have a business model anymore. Hardware is now a commodity. What business do you want to be in? One where the price of your product has to decrease (and every tech web site is trumpeting the benefits of cheap commodity hardware) OR the one where you can charge MORE each year for a little bit different version of your software (and you have a built in monopoly (like Microsoft and Google)?