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by 8ren 5701 days ago
Sun's revenue came from workstations, which got disrupted by PCs. Everything else drove that.
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lani 5701 days ago
1) enterprise servers 2) Java which drives enterprise computing which runs on any platform. Didn't these two things work against each other for Sun ?
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badmash69 5700 days ago
Not really. Remember Sun's stock during the dotcom boom.

Sun failed because of poor execution. They blew the cloud computing opportunity. Their sales people did not chase orders like the HP guys did (this is for a personal experience ). Their Java application server sucked when compared to Websphere and Weblogic. They could not deliver a good story with MySQL acquisition. They let Linux get ahead of Solaris , at least in mind share.

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gaius 5700 days ago
Exactly. I'm old enough to remember when Sun's stock ticker wasn't JAVA it was SUNW... W for workstation.
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fauigerzigerk 5700 days ago
Good to hear you're more than 3 years old ;-)
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