Any issues with funding or whatever, and their customers would get locked in on the yesterday's "top of the line hardware" (reminds how Oracle used lawyers to f

Any issues with funding or whatever, and their customers would get locked in on the yesterday's "top of the line hardware" (reminds how Oracle used lawyers to force HP to continue support Itanic). Sun was 50K persons company, and they struggled to support even reasonably wide set of hardware. Vendor lock in is like a Newton law in this industry.