The featured comment is way more insightful than the actual article: The NETWORK is the computer, remember? Sun lost track of this reality. They were a systems

The featured comment is way more insightful than the actual article: The NETWORK is the computer, remember? Sun lost track of this reality. They were a systems company, yes, with emphasis on the hardware devices business rather than software. Lack of focus on software was not the cause of Sun's downfall. It was that they lost the vision of systems evolution in the NETWORK. Systems are now on a chip, in a hand held smart device that is mobile with access to apps. in the data center or cloud over the NETWORK. Sun understood this in its early years, but lost track of the trend later on, lured into selling "big iron" and mired in the status quo. Furthermore, Sun was a bloated company that refused to make staffing cuts when necessary. Sun was blinded by Sun. [sseiden920]