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Java on Linux was interpreted until 1.3.1/1.4 when the VM, named ExactVM, was replaced by HotSpot which includes a JIT. At that time, I remember deciding to pr

Java on Linux was interpreted until 1.3.1/1.4 when the VM, named ExactVM, was replaced by HotSpot which includes a JIT. At that time, I remember deciding to prototype a B2B store in Java and then rewrite it in C++ when i will know what i was doing. I never rewrite that soft because Java becomes fast enough overnight. In a sense, SUN kill itself with Java.

icedchai 6y ago
Makes sense. Sun peaked during the dot-com boom. I worked at several different startups, both full time and as side gigs, and they all had Suns. I remember Enterprise 3500's and later 250 and 450's being popular around that time. After the crash, you had to basically give that stuff away. I knew a guy who had 10 Sun boxes (all less than 5 years old) at home because a local company wrote them off. I had a couple of low end Ultras (an Ultra 2 and Ultra 10) but sold one of them off. The Ultra 2 I got used for pennies on the dollar at an auction. I think it was like $200 for what was a $15K machine years earlier. Sun was so far ahead of it time. Solaris was a solid OS, but once Linux became "good enough", somewhere in the '99 to '03 timeframe, depending on industry, it was over for them.