[Info-vax] OT: Elephants Can't Dance

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Steven Schweda wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> [...]  It
>> may take years to see how this is going to work out, or not.  The Sun
>> model makes at least as much sense, to me, as any of the others!
> 
>    How many years do you need?  It's been free since at least
> mid-2004 (when I apparently downloaded "Solaris 9 4/04
> Operating System"), and it was what before that, $75 for a CD
> kit?  (Since about 2000?)  Last time I checked, Sun was still
> in business.

Are they making money?  Are they getting an adequate return on 
investment?  Are people, in fact, developing more software to run under 
Solaris, SPARC and/or X86?