It was a mix of not buying Be, having a reverse acquisition with NeXT, Jobs taking over the reigns yet again, Sun doing a bunch of bad decisions.
Nowadays, following the spirit of old Apple, they only care the UNIX underpinnings as good enough, and that's about it.
And their Unix is just fine.
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Lets not pretend outside IIS with ASP, later ASP.NET, Active Directory, Sharepoint, SQL Server, SMB, there were any other deployment scenarios left for Windows.
It was a mix of not buying Be, having a reverse acquisition with NeXT, Jobs taking over the reigns yet again, Sun doing a bunch of bad decisions.
Nowadays, following the spirit of old Apple, they only care the UNIX underpinnings as good enough, and that's about it.