[declandewet]

It's worth noting that Sun Micro-systems is pretty far up the corporate ladder and likely had the resources to prove the candidate was irreplaceable during that time. This might not be the same for OP.

[btilly]

That is a good note. But Sun circa 1987 (the year they introduced Solaris) was not exactly the household name that you remember from the dot com era.

[true_religion]

True but that was a year after the IPOed, they were pretty wealthy at the least.