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sun imploded for a lot of reasons, android games wasn't a huge factor. their ridiculously expensive hardware and consultants? much bigger.

I was doing UNIX/Windows cross platform development during the first .com wave.

So I had to deal with Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, and Windows NT/2000.

We also rented servers for in-house development.

Their rates were just like everyone else on the Fortune 500 world.