2) anything given or promised to induce a person to do something against his wishes.
If Sun's customers are willing to switch to HP, then why HP needs to provide 'incentives'? It's because HP is giving out money to induce Sun's customers to abandon Sun. This is against thier (Sun's customers) original wishes.
You are pretty good at fooling around with words but I believe you could only convince people who have low IQ. I happen to believe almost everyone here is quite smart.