If Sun had been more liberal with Solaris licensing on x86 in the early years (before, say, 2000), we might all be running Solaris servers today. Sun / Solaris

If Sun had been more liberal with Solaris licensing on x86 in the early years (before, say, 2000), we might all be running Solaris servers today. Sun / Solaris was the Unix for most of the 90's through the dot-com crash. Almost all early startups I worked with were Sun / Solaris shops. All the early ISPs I worked with had Sun boxes for their customer shell accounts and web hosts. They put the "dot in dot-com", after all...