[remeq]

I always had a feeling that Bryan and people around kinda took the tech first approach and it never really came to a proper fruition. I think the ambition behind the engineering marvels they did over time was certainly bigger. Dtrace, Fishworks, Joyent, then this... so why is that? Perhaps the fierce refusal of joining the mainstream side (Linux)? Fingers crossed, but...

[bcantrill]

You've been downvoted to oblivion, but let me add a personal rebuttal for anyone else that finds themselves here: I don't agree at all about "not coming to proper fruition": DTrace was an absurdly outsized success by any metric; Fishworks was if anything too commercially successful (we did nearly $100M of business our first year!); Joyent represented a successful exit to Samsung, etc. I have been extraordinarily blessed to be in the right place at the right time with the right folks several times over -- but never more so than at Oxide: our ambition is absurdly ambitious, but it has never felt more attainable!

All of that said: thank you for keeping your fingers crossed. ;)

[panick21_]

You can sleep well at night knowing you made Oracle a lot of money.