A bit off topic, but it's a bit sad/melancholy to be reminded that Sun - who actually made real physical _stuff_ like all those Sparcs and Alphas - ended up selling for barely more than what Groupon apparently recently turned down...
But I agree it's sad. Sun's accomplishments were something to behold.
(oh, and "oops" on the Alphas error... I _did_ know they were build by DEC... Thanks for the correction)
Had they targeted the lower end of the server space (and workstations, to prevent Windows workstations being turned into cheap servers) with the better technology they had, the story would have been totally different.
Of course, buying companies they didn't need wasn't exactly clever.