The bandwagon was actually an Ice Cream truck run by the old lady from the Sponge Bob movie. Intel had just wiped the floor with x86 servers, all the old guard

The bandwagon was actually an Ice Cream truck run by the old lady from the Sponge Bob movie. Intel had just wiped the floor with x86 servers, all the old guard Unix vendors with their own chips were hurting. Then Intel makes the rounds with a glorious plan of how they were going to own the server landscape for a decade or more. So in various states of defeat and grief much of the industry followed them. Planned or not, the resulting rug pull really screwed them over. The organs that operated those lines of businesses were fully removed. It worked too well, I am going to say it was on accident. Intel should have broken up its internal x86 hegemony a long time ago, which they have been trying since the day it was invented. Like the 6502, it was just too successful for its own good. Only x86 also built up the Vatican around itself.