How Sun saw the light

Kelly McNeill writes: “The commercial UNIX war of the 1990s ended with the once fragile workstation company Sun Microsystems the victorious champion. Smoldering on the battlefield were the charred remains of IBM and SGI. Withdrawing to lick its wounds was the once powerful and almighty Hewlett-Packard (HP). And escorting the champion to a new millennium were Linux and Intel. So how did Sun win this great war? Here’s my take at OS Opinion from the point of view of a UNIX technology junkie on what has happened.”