[jasoneckert]

I agree that they were doomed by that point as well primarily due to Linux on faster and cheaper x86 hardware. My UltraSPARC-III-based Blade 1500 that was an incredibly overpriced workstation that only ran Solaris well, and wasn't on par with the performance of x86 at the time.

However, I do remember buying an Opteron-based Ultra 20 because it was cheaper from Sun than anyone else and had 100% Linux support, which everyone seemed to be migrating to from Solaris. By that time, I'm sure there was no clear market direction for Sun software- or hardware-wise, and everything was too little too late.