It's things like this, from SDTimes, that explain why I call Sun's OSS plans utterly insane. Last week, Jonathan Schwartz felt compelled to link here and try to explain how they can make money by not ever charging any. Well. In his long and rambling explanation, he Schwartz might have taken a stab at this:

In addition to the company’s reported losses, Sun announced an 8 percent drop in SPARC-based server sales, year-over-year. The company’s x86-based servers accounted for all of the company’s growth in this sector, and for 27 percent of the company’s overall server sales. Despite this, Sun saw a 12 percent increase in revenues in the United States, the first time that the company has seen growth in this country in two years.

Gee, what a shocker - after Java commoditized development tools, and after championing Solaris on x86 - and not charging for it - Sun's server sales dropped. Hmm. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect the dots there. Sadly, Schwartz can't find the dots, much less connect them.