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		Dilpil on Oct 21, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sun to change ticker symbol again — now will be ca... Can someone explain to me how Sun even makes any money at all?

metatronscube on Oct 21, 2008 [–]

Our company almost exclusively buys Sun hardware to run our services...and we pay them an absolute fortune for it as well.

ced on Oct 21, 2008 | [–]

They are also very entrenched in numeric computing. Sun Sparcs and all. The transition to Linux is very very slow.

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