[pfdietz]

Yeah, I'm going to call shenanigans on that claim. I think you were fed misinformation. Sun suffered just one quarter of loss until 1999: that was a $20.3 M loss on $431 M in revenue for one quarter in 1989. I suspect the turbulence Sun experienced then was blown wildly out of proportion in the EasyNet echo chamber.

[vaxman]

Possible but DEC wasn't known for that level of BS --I think some of the confusion may have come from the fact that SUN acquired a storage vendor in Colorado during that time that had massive revenues but was drowning in debt and that company did file bankruptcy on Holloween, 1985 --perhaps not because SUN needed a storage vendor in Colorado, but because they got the the cash infusion without the debt. Can't really be sure what the competitive marketing folks were referring to, just be certain that I am accurately recalling the summary of what was on Easynet in those dark years. I am a polaroid head and held the top technical position over thousands of engineers as a teen...for me, the attention to legal/business/politics came later in life.