When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
I worked at ETRADE around the same time and led the migration from Sun to Linux on the software side, switching everything to Apache was once a radical idea. We switched to IBM machines and not HP, a Sun server cost around $250k and the equivalent Linux server was $5k and outperformed the Sun machines. It still was considered risky by CTOs.<p>During the dotcom boom there was huge competition for ordering Sun machines and it was difficult to get enough, we were competeting with eBay to get our hands on machines.<p>During the crash, we went back to eBay as a seller and couldn't off load all the old Sun machines.<p>Here's an article from the time:
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