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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by Bluecobra on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:28PM (#25702295)
Yeah it’s a shame. If Sun would have made Solaris (both SPARC/x86) free sooner, they might have prevented the mass exodus of companies moving off to save money.
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Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux by jabl on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:02PM (#25705322)
In retrospect, they should have gone down the Sun386I path back in the day, instead of changing gears and spending $$$ building up the SPARC architecture and ecosystem.
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