Companies that are getting eaten from below have very few options. Do you really think Sun could have made a profit selling equipment at PC margins? That requires an entirely different cost structure. If they had tried, you could have written a slightly different comment:<p><i>Sun used to make really high-quality equipment, but now they are making crappy PCs like everyone else - maybe they should have focused on the customers willing to pay for quality.</i><p>Schwartz's task was essentially impossible, and selling to IBM or Oracle was probably the best outcome he could have hoped for.