Reality Check
I work in a large commercial institution, that moved away from Sun back in 2001, and is now moving back. HP-UX is a joke, we punted Itanium out of here years ago. We can't afford Oracle any more after their recent price hike, and Sun's the only company delivering a commercially supported open source DB (two in fact). So for all the whinging about them, they seem more relevant to me than either HP or IBM, both of whom seem to have blown their brains out when they embraced open source, but forgot to ship open source products.