tl;dr: Oxide co-founder Bryan Cantrill reflects on Sun Microsystems' failures, arguing that despite technical and strategic wins (like open-sourcing Solaris), Sun ultimately failed because it had "become bored with the mechanics of running a business." He illustrates with a 2005 incident where a fast-growing OpenSolaris startup couldn't get Sun to return calls or sell them hardware, while Dell aggressively courted them. The lesson: no amount of strategic success can overcome operational neglect.