A lot of us at Sun in the Solaris org had no love for SPARC. Sun made a very typical and terrible mistake: it sat on its laurels. Sun created some awesome thi

A lot of us at Sun in the Solaris org had no love for SPARC. Sun made a very typical and terrible mistake: it sat on its laurels. Sun created some awesome things then tried to lock-in and milk customers. Sun (and later Oracle) did this with SPARC and J2ME, among others. All the products they did this with are as good as dead today in terms of market share -- surprise! Vendor lock-in is not great for the customer, but when you try to milk the customers, you end up risking taking them to the FYO point [0], and that is catastrophic for the vendor, and the vendor never sees it coming and can't help themselves. Sitting on your laurels is not good. Don't do it. Innovate. Then innovate some more. Then never stop innovating. [0] Let me google that for ya: https://www.google.com/search?q=fyo+point