Around '95, I was a college student with a brand new Pentium-90. I had read about this Solaris thingy that could run Windows apps and thought, "Hey, I'd love t

Around '95, I was a college student with a brand new Pentium-90. I had read about this Solaris thingy that could run Windows apps and thought, "Hey, I'd love to try that out..I have 64 megs of RAM!" So, I called Sun to ask about getting a student copy. $600! I was a sophomore in college. When I asked the Sun salesperson why I couldn't have a copy for $50, she explained that they'd be losing money that way since they had to recoup their R&D costs! My argument that I wouldn't be purchasing a copy for $600 anyway fell on deaf (dumb?) ears? Right after that, a friend helped me install Linux -- no small feat as a kernel hack was required for network connectivity in the 0.9 kernel! To this day, I have never owned a computer that ran Solaris. However, I work on a project with over 500 Linux production servers. Serves Sun right for not being nice to me when I was nineteen.