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Only the huge amount of cash available to dot-coms propped up Sun then. With all the "you need sun servers for dot-coms" beliefs. I wonder if Sun would have be

• gaius 12y ago
  Almost certainly. Sun kit was very reliable (there's more to building a server than putting a PC in a rackmount case) and for 5 or 10 years after the dotcom bust, they were competing with their own second-hand kit at fire sale prices, which was still perfectly good for the job it was sold for.