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Sun failed to monetize. Oracle failed to sustain the business and compete.
by holydude 10y ago
Sun failed to monetize. Oracle failed to sustain the business and compete.
- rad_gruchalski 10y agoWhat business if Sun failed to monetize?
- holydude 10y agoSun failed to make money. They had great products but failed to make money out of them. Oracle did great for some time (resurrected SPARC and Solaris) but they also made a lot of the great people leave (Nexenta, Joyent etc etc).
- gaius 10y agoSun commoditized hardware and operating systems with "write once run anywhere". Then they commoditized software with free stuff, such as OpenOffice, VirtualBox, etc. Then the music stopped and, having no consulting operation to speak of, they had nowhere to sit.