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> It was something I and my consulting colleagues had run into before: The belief at Sun that only Sun could make good use of its own technologies, and anything
by nailer 5y ago
> It was something I and my consulting colleagues had run into before: The belief at Sun that only Sun could make good use of its own technologies, and anything created outside of Sun was trash.
Yep. See Sun's response to the Linux SPARC maintainers technical critique of Solaris for SPARC. Meanwhile at Red Hat we started hiring all the ex-Sun people that had been pushing for x86 internally at Sun and gotten frustrated with the flip flops (RHEL 3 on Xeon already demolished Solaris/SPARC) .
- cryptonector 5y agoA lot of us at Sun in the Solaris org had no love for SPARC. Sun made a very typical and terrible mistake: it sat on its laurels. Sun created some awesome things then tried to lock-in and milk customers. Sun (and later Oracle) did this with SPARC and J2ME, among others. All the products they did this with are as good as dead today in terms of market share -- surprise! Vendor lock-in is not great for the customer, but when you try to milk the customers, you end up risking taking them to the FYO point [0], and that is catastrophic for the vendor, and the vendor never sees it coming and can't help themselves. Sitting on your laurels is not good. Don't do it. Innovate. Then innovate some more. Then never stop innovating. [0] Let me google that for ya: https://www.google.com/search?q=fyo+point