Comment by credo

>> we did not understand the economic disruptive force of either Intel or open source until it was too late.

I find your comment about open-source confusing

My sense is that (a) Sun was a hardware company and (b) they were obsessed with beating Microsoft (a software company)

One of their strategies to beat Microsoft was to commoditize software. It is possible that many Sun employees also developed an ideological affinity towards open-source, but imo their move to embrace open-source was a deliberate business strategy to commoditize software. Ultimately Sun failed, but it wasn't because they didn't understand open-source