It&#x27;s inevitable, the only question is at what rate the materials in your chips will emit them, and what are the consequences.  Smart companies spend a little extra for parity&#x2F;EEC, they don&#x27;t blame their customers for machine room environmental non-optimality unless they&#x27;re <i>really</i> sure that&#x27;s the problem.  He also didn&#x27;t deny the &quot;sign the NDA if you want us to (pretend to) address the problem&quot;.<p>Bottom line, he and Sun didn&#x27;t own the problem, didn&#x27;t take care of their customers until too much bad PR was generated, and again dealt with it at least as much as a PR problem for Sun than as a problem for their customers.<p>A bad idea when there are other companies out there offering better enterprise level stuff.  Or as a DEC book put it, looking back on the frothy &#x27;70s minicomputer market, the companies that won did an <i>adequate</i> job of <i>everything</i>, didn&#x27;t drop the ball on any of the essential things like documentation and support.  Certainly no one bought DEC equipment for their disk drives....