<<[Sun's] software business model is fundamentally broken. It thinks it can survive by giving software away.>>
Yeah, that (as well as the other response about DEC not treating the software guys well) was what I meant by a cultural issue. To make money from software you have to nail your company to the wall that it stands or falls by making a profit from the stuff. If you have a freeware mentality, that comes from a hardware management culture that software is just a giveaway to sell hardware.