McNealy freely admitted in an interview that: "we were able to hook Java runtime onto the free, open source Netscape browser. And it was a collision of two thi

McNealy freely admitted in an interview that: "we were able to hook Java runtime onto the free, open source Netscape browser. And it was a collision of two things that accelerated and launched each other together. It was fascinatingly lucky timing for both companies." While it may have taken time to mature at that time it was an "overnight success". Sun was considering dropping it and considered it an expense before that.