And p100. Re: 'several million dollar E10K' performance? Red Hat were replacing them with Xeon's by 2003 (with Sun's old sales staff) and crushing them. Though that was SPARC's fault not Solaris's

Possibly I missed the golden era of Sun field support, or perhaps it was more a regional thing, but I consistently get vastly superior support from Red Hat than I've ever had from Sun, even when running M-class Sun kit.

And let us not speak of Oracle.