> We need to be fair here.  Sun did "defer" Solaris for x86 in 2002.  We
> didn't really get it fully back on track until Solaris 10 in 2005.  
> So 
> even in
> late 2004 all a customer had from us was statements of intent, not an
> actual product.

Good point. I wasn't involved with Sun at all during this time period, so I 
didn't realize this was true.

> If someone tries something like this now, it would in fact be FUD 
> and we 
> could
> vigorously combat it.  We couldn't do that prior to the release of 
> Solaris 10, and
> to some extent even OpenSolaris.

Makes sense.

> There is no question Sun made mistakes that we're still trying to 
> recover from.

Well, I'm glad at least the mistakes are realized and that the company is 
headed in the right direction now. I guess that's the first key to "recovery" 
at least in this sense.
 
Thank you for the clarification,
David
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