It's pretty simple why these Unix vendors all died. Linux and Intel chips. Sure you could get a really nice Sun system at the time with all of the redundancy te

It's pretty simple why these Unix vendors all died. Linux and Intel chips. Sure you could get a really nice Sun system at the time with all of the redundancy tech built in, which cost around $50k. Or you can go and get 4 or 5 Linux servers from Dell running RedHat which by the early 2000's were faster too.