Sun's initiative was on the market. You could(I did) buy time on their grid. However, to characterize it as something that would have or competed with amazon

Sun's initiative was on the market. You could(I did) buy time on their grid. However, to characterize it as something that would have or competed with amazon is just wrong. Sun's offering was much more of a pre-google compute engine. There were other difference in sun's offering was push more towards bulk compute and less end user applications. I'm pretty sure Sun also tried to add things that would entice some end user applications after launch.