Apart from this entry I don't see any discussion on what Sun did wrong, but since you broached the subject: - I'm furious about all the attention RISC V undese

Apart from this entry I don't see any discussion on what Sun did wrong, but since you broached the subject: - I'm furious about all the attention RISC V undeservedly gets while OpenSPARC is vastly superior in terms of mnemonics and virtual register windows and a free instruction every branch not taken and is GPL licensed; - not devoting enough attention to i86pc Solaris was a major mistake; - not selling cheap fully Solaris integrated desktops was the death knell: people knew Solaris from their student days, and universities had it because Sun made and sold workstations; once Sun decided to stop that, talent acquisition was stopped: desktop is needed for OS adoption; - UltraSPARC T3 and T5 are blazingly fast, I know because I ran them, but now it seems too late; - it wouldn't be too late if the RISC V nonsense pandering stopped and some OpenSPARC designed servers and workstations and even tinkertoys showed up by enthusiasts, like they did with Raspberry Pi; - I'm glad Sun bought MySQL because Oracle subsequently destroyed it; MySQL is nowhere to be found now, and that is good so, because it was a shitty database which silently corrupts data; it deserved never to be made in the first place; that is one good deed in the world of damage which Oracle caused; - killing OpenSolaris destroyed all that good will; had the project continued, it would have directly competed with GNU/Linux because we saw a constant monthly influx of GNU/Linux refugees on opensolaris.org forum, people who actually needed to get things done with their hardware; - biggest mistake was that UltraSPARC based servers weren't cheaper than an average intel personal computer tin bucket server. That really killed them. And they would argue and refer me, a customer, to their internal "pricing committee" instead of listening. What happens when a business doesn't listen to its customers? "Bryan clearly learned those lessons early, so I think he'll be fine." Indeed, and I wish him well and much success. He truly deserves by his deeds let alone his thoughts to continue being successful.