Sun was dying in 2000. I was busy deploying BSD and a bit later Linux for all our x86 gear.

Meanwhile in 2000 we only considered Linux good enough to host our MP3 file server and quake for the late nights.

All our production stuff was being deployed on Aix, HP-UX, Solaris and Windows NT/2000 Server.

Likewise most of my university degree used DG/UX and Solaris, when Red-Hat Linux was first deployed on the labs, it was after the DG/UX server died, and I was already on the fourth year of a five year degree.

Java was exploding and sun machines were the server platform at the time. Yes, the dot com bubble burst and their stock was in freefall but all the things deployed to sun that survived the bubble didn't just disappear or move to X86 overnight