Sun hardware was very popular through the 90's into the early 2000's, before Linux was considered "stable." After that, a Sparc running Solaris wasn't competiti

Sun hardware was very popular through the 90's into the early 2000's, before Linux was considered "stable." After that, a Sparc running Solaris wasn't competitive with an early 2000's era Intel box running Linux. Around the same time, the dot-com crash flooded the market with barely used, almost new hardware. Anyone who needed Sparcs had them... for cheap. After 2003 or so, I never saw any newer companies go with Sun. Still, I loved Sun hardware. I had a Sparc 5 at home for a long time.