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Ha, OK while it is slightly naff to do it I couldn't help but smile and pull this quote out of pg's essay:

  11. Its daddy is in a pinch. Sun's business model is being undermined on two 
  fronts. Cheap Intel processors, of the same type used in desktop machines, are 
  now more than fast enough for servers. And FreeBSD seems to be at least as good 
  an OS for servers as Solaris. Sun's advertising implies that you need Sun 
  servers for industrial strength applications. If this were true, Yahoo would be 
  first in line to buy Suns; but when I worked there, the servers were all Intel 
  boxes running FreeBSD. This bodes ill for Sun's future. If Sun runs into 
  trouble, they could drag Java down with them.
Prescient. I hadn't read that essay before.


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