https://youtu.be/P1TsVW4P5DI
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The hardware business is GROWING at this point. Go check the numbers to see the year over year growth. They're the reason you're getting a bonus.
"Everyone loved Sun and Sun technology. "
Nothing could be further from the truth. The shortcomings of both Sun hw and sw have been well documented here previously.
Someday, these Sun people will all be dead and gone.
That day can’t come too soon….
Everyone loved Sun and Sun technology. Same can't be said for Oracle. In fact the only people who think like this are bitter Oracle frauds.
Someday all the Oracle people will be dead and gone too. I doubt people will remember them as fondly.
Great, more Sun dinosaur l0sers rambling on and on about the good old days … and now long obsolete products.
Someday, these Sun people will all be dead and gone.
That day can’t come too soon….
Saying that sun technology is good is like saying your maInframe is good,
As late as 1994 is was helping to manage a DEC20 for a government contract. In all that time it never broke down and only did go down was when we took it down for maintenance. It might have been old, but it was very good technology, even if I had to be careful around the capacitors lest they discharge into ME. Same thing for SPARC, it is still very good technology, but that doesn't mean it is going to survive. The world is littered with superior technology that went splat, for a myriad of reasons.
IT's a shame, but that's how the world spins. Having the best doesn't count for much if you make a mess of everything around it or make it not worth using and something else, even remotely close to it is available.
Not ironic at all. It’s good tech
This is debatable. Most of the customers running it would rather not be, but are locked in. The cost of changing platforms on legacy technology is just too high.
Saying that sun technology is good is like saying your maInframe is good, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't abandon it given the opportunity.
Not ironic at all. It’s good tech, no matter what you think of the former company. Solid. Predictable. History of success. Name recognition. Exactly the stuff you want in a DC.
OTOH, a database is just 1s and 0s in an electric state. Any software is, really.
Until you can run your whatever without hardware, you are stuck with it.
The ironic part is that customers are still buying 100's of millions of dollars worth of SPARC servers every quarter. The last generation made - M8, continues to stand the test of time and customers love them. I'd hazard a guess that even 15-20 years from now, there will still be a lot of datacenters with SPARC/Solaris running critical business operations.
Fun, I especially enjoyed the "decline of" part!
That was well done.
Sun Microsystems could not have a more special place in my hacker heart. In my youth Sun was all over the place; I was dreaming working for them – as I would eventually did later in my life – and, admittedly, I would have done so even only on the basis of their uber cool logo.
I remember working on their Sun Ray thin clients for a military contract. Good times. Thanks for sharing this video.