That's a good point, but I don't think it's the whole story, and is probably more true for SGI than Sun. I think part of my bias in how I see things was I real

That's a good point, but I don't think it's the whole story, and is probably more true for SGI than Sun. I think part of my bias in how I see things was I really only caught the tail end of Sun's heyday in the early days of web serving when a lot was being served up by Sun machines running Netscape's web server. In universities there was also a shift from Solaris to Linux, but by the time I was away from working student jobs (did admin and web app devel for the college starting in '97) those spaces were Linux dominated.