[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Mazzini Alessandro]

>>
>> Sun SPARC/Solaris used to be pretty popular for web servers.
>> Maybe it still is.
>
> It is becoming dramatically less popular thanks to Larry. Have a look on
> ebay. People are dumping perfectly good SPARCware by the metric tonne and
> pallet load. Most webservers today seem to be running Windows or FreeBSD 
> on
> Intel commodity crapware. I'm shorting SPARC futures...
>

Bit deviating from the topic but, given that I admit my total ignorance 
about the Sparc current situation... why is it becoming dramatically less 
popular after being purchased by Oracle ?