&#62; ...which led to more market share declines.<p>Which lead to decreased network effects that, in turn, hurt the viability of their whole stack (SPARC+Solaris+apps)<p>You <i>have</i> to sell something entry-level unless you want to be servicing legacy customers forever.<p>I believe IBM is making with POWER/AIX exactly the same mistake Sun made. Fortunately for them, their legacy customers are less loyal than Sun's were.<p>In order to sell servers a year in the future, you must captivate developers right now.