Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by VonGuard » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 8:13 PM UTC

Shareholders voted today to officially sell the company to Oracle. And Jonathan Schwartz wasn't even in the room when it happened.

Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems
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Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by spitfire » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 9:33 PM UTC

Such a shame. They made fantastic products but just couldn't keep up the pace as time went on.

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by Musashi » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 9:41 PM UTC

This is sad... They used to be a damned good company with good techies.

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by jf » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 9:43 PM UTC

Sun is gone, but they left behind an amazing collection of Open Source Software: Java, OpenSolaris, OpenSPARC, VirtualBox.

I'll miss Sun and the amazing people I knew there.

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by jeremymims » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 9:45 PM UTC

This was the real success of Linux. It didn't take over the consumer desktop market, but it sure decimated the need for specialty servers and proprietary server operating systems.

Once Sun was forced to compete in the commodity hardware market, it was over.

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by ramoq » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 9:50 PM UTC

can't help but feel down. i really enjoy developing in java :(

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 10:00 PM UTC

jeremymims wrote: post #5

This was the real success of Linux. It didn't take over the consumer desktop market, but it sure decimated the need for specialty servers and proprietary server operating systems. Once Sun was forced to compete in the commodity hardware market, it was over.

Indeed, while Dell, et. al. just spent their time pumping out ever-cheaper products, Sun actually spent cash developing the aformentionted technologies.

Nice "real success": killing the innovators in the UNIX space and letting the vultures come in and eat up all the market share.

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by timcederman » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 10:04 PM UTC

ramoq wrote: post #6

can't help but feel down. i really enjoy developing in java :(

You think Java will be discontinued?

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by mseebach » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 10:18 PM UTC

lallysingh wrote: post #7

jeremymims wrote: post #5

This was the real success of Linux. It didn't take over the consumer desktop market, but it sure decimated the need for specialty servers and proprietary server operating systems. Once Sun was forced to compete in the commodity hardware market, it was over.

Indeed, while Dell, et. al. just spent their time pumping out ever-cheaper products, Sun actually spent cash developing the aformentionted technologies. Nice "real success": killing the innovators in the UNIX space and letting the vultures come in and eat up all the market share.

SPARC with Solaris is pretty inferior to Linux on x86 for many purposes, including the entire web-stack. This competition forced Sun to innovate, giving us the UltraSPARC T1 and T2, which is simply amazing technology. Suns UNIX innovation (i.e. Solaris 10 with dtrace and ZFS) came as a response to the success of Linux, not in spite of it.

Sun paused to sleep on their .com laurels, and it killed them.

Re: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

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Post by quisxt » Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 10:32 PM UTC

Musashi wrote: post #3

This is sad... They used to be a damned good company with good techies.

...but absolutely terrible leadership that couldn't figure out where they wanted to go, or how to get there and ended up going nowhere.