From my perspective, the issue was with execution, not strategic values. Recall the SmugMug guys struggle to use Sun hardware. Not only could they not get som

From my perspective, the issue was with execution, not strategic values. Recall the SmugMug guys struggle to use Sun hardware. Not only could they not get someone from sales to return their call, but they had a heck of a time even getting the devices set-up in their datacenter. http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/05/16/sun-honeymoon-update-storage/ http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/05/16/sun-honeymoon-update... How many things must have gone wrong so that a config UI requiring a non-obvious, redundant magic string could have gotten out the door? Edit: The "jumped the shark" moment was when, at JavaOne, Sun claimed it would build the world's largest app store by installing nagware along with the JVM.