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They didn't. They extended the life for eight more years and still make a profit from Sun hardware sales today. If you looked at the alternatives: IBM or stay i
by sys_64738 4y ago
They didn't. They extended the life for eight more years and still make a profit from Sun hardware sales today. If you looked at the alternatives: IBM or stay independent then those were not going to end well. Oracle gave Sun life for eight more years.
- rhabarba 4y agoNow, did it end well?
- sys_64738 4y agoOracle was the best think to happen to Sun in 2010. You have to understand the market dynamics at UNIX vendors at that point. Look around. There are zero UNIX server vendors any more.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoAmazon and Azure and Google etc are UNIX server vendors: what they vend is just for rent rather than purchase.
- rhabarba 4y agoThey mostly run on Linux though, not Unix.
- rhabarba 4y agoTo be fair, IBM still has them. But IBM doesn’t care about AIX much anymore either.
- sys_64738 4y agoMostly they have a sustaining team, just like Oracle. Solaris is still supported but purely in a payed sustaining mode for legacy customers until 2034.