People buy Sun for the software? (Score 1)

I thought Sun considered themselves a "hardware" company. Makes sense, though. They are the McDonald's of the computer industry. People go to McDonald's to buy $0.39 hamburgers, but McDonald's makes their money from $1.99 soft drinks (made from dirt cheap sugar water). People go to Sun for Solarias and free Java, but Sun makes money from their expensive hardware. Apple does the same thing. People buy Macs for the MacOS, but Apple makes money buy selling expensive, proprietary hardware. This is a great strategy. I just don't see what SGI is doing, though. SGI will sell people free Linux, but make money selling commodity Intel hardware (with some proprietary SGI video hardware thrown)???