Comment Re:Business vs Open Source (Score 2) 408
Did you read the article or any history of the Microsoft/Sun legal battles?
Sun wasn't battling Microsoft because they were bored. When Sun first came out with Solaris for x86 in the 90's they decided to not produce or sell their own x86 hardware, instead they partnered with the big server vendors to sell and support Solaris x86 on their hardware.
I remember working on Compaq servers back then that had Solaris as an option for the OS in the BIOS.
The problem was that Microsoft had a stronghold over the likes of Dell, HP, Compaq because they were making most of their money from Wintel boxes and it was easy to keep other OS's out of that channel.
It's still not easy to go to these companies and order a server with Linux on it. You can do it but it's not promoted as much as Windows but it's a lot better than it was a few years ago. The reason that is, is because of the result of Sun's (as well as other's) fight against Microsoft.