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> I tried to get Sun to buy them but alas Commodore had major management rot and corporate issues. Maybe that rot would have reached Sun, which would have bee

• vidarh 3y ago
  Commodore was also surprisingly big, and Sun grew surprisingly fast, and I don't think that was a good match, as much as it'd have been intriguing. Commodore reached a billion USD revenue in 1984. Throughout most of the rest of the 1980s, its revenue was in the $800+ million range. March 30th 1986, SF Examiner reported Sun's revenue as $115.2m. By 1988, however, Sun passed $1bn in revenue, according to The Press Democrat, who also reported their 1987 revenue as $537.5m. At some point in that interval it'd probably have been possible for Sun to get a good price for Commodore, but I think at that point Commodore would've already seemed like a bad deal to them given their growth trajectory. A couple of years later Commodore was in terminal decline, and Sun had kept growing and while Commodore at that point might have been small fry enough to be more viable to pick up without changing Sun too much, I'm guessing they didn't seem very relevant to Sun at that point.