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by mghackerlady 87 days ago
maybeeee SPARC based Solaris? Probably not a major usecase nowadays (Oracle bought Sun for Java, not for Sun) but it seems to be limping along
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> Oracle bought Sun for Java, not for Sun

My recollection is that they also qanted Sun's storage hardware products, to sell alongside their existing DB software.

that was also a reason, but you can't convince me Oracle wasn't primarily in it for Java