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> "Sometimes I wonder if Sun could have survived if they had gone for the x86 commodity hardware route." They did try again in the late '00s: https://en.wikipe
by ThrowawayR2 6y ago
> "Sometimes I wonder if Sun could have survived if they had gone for the x86 commodity hardware route."
They did try again in the late '00s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ultra_series#x86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ultra_series#x86 I always wondered why that didn't work out for them; seemed like a natural pivot.
- icedchai 6y agoSun/Solaris peaked with the dot-com boom. They did put the dot in dot-com, after all. Linux was often seen as too immature, so many startups (at least the ones I am personally familiar with...) went with Sun hardware. By the late 00's, Linux was much more solid and Sun didn't stand a chance.
- jabl 6y agoToo little too late, fundamentally. They did a Hail Mary effort with ZFS & dtrace, but in the end few people cared enough to switch.