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Uh...I'd wager Sun has more staked on Java than MS does on any of the languages it supports.
by aggieben 19y ago
Uh...I'd wager Sun has more staked on Java than MS does on any of the languages it supports.
- subwindow 19y agoSun has been the most ardent corporate supporters of Rails. They were even before JRuby. Plus, Sun isn't really a big dog in the acquisition game.
- delano 19y agoIt takes a pretty big dog to buy MySQL.
- subwindow 19y agoI should have said: "Sun isn't really a big dog in the startup acquisition game." MySQL wasn't a startup.
- SwellJoe 19y agoSun makes plenty of acquisitions (mostly startups): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems#Acquisitions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems#Acquisitions
- subwindow 19y agoIn the past 5 years they've mostly been one of: 1) Hardware 2) Giant 3) Enterprisey None of which are very applicable to the original question, which is about web software startups.
- SwellJoe 19y ago"None of which are very applicable to the original question, which is about web software startups." You must have read a different question than I did. The original post mentions "startups", not "web software startups". Many News.YC readers are building things that Sun would find interesting, so I think Sun's acquisition history is relevant to our interests here at News.YC.
- delano 19y agoThey've been doing a lot of non-hardware, non-enterprisey stuff in the past 5 years too. Primarily Solaris 10/OpenSolaris and DTrace among (many) other things. DTrace continues to blow my mind.