McNealy: Energy efficiency and chip multi-threading are a big deal for Sun and major breakthroughs for the industry. We invested in this technology several years back when others were doubling down on press releases and dead-end operating systems like HP-UX [Hewlett-Packard Co's Unix operating system]. Sun moved in a different and seemingly controversial direction.

Who cares? If HP-UX is dead-end, then what does that make Solaris?