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>Sun, with Java, which hides SPARC vs x86 could have made the entire cloud happen a decade earlier. All they had to do was live their trademark tagline, "the n
by ben1040 5y ago
>Sun, with Java, which hides SPARC vs x86 could have made the entire cloud happen a decade earlier.
All they had to do was live their trademark tagline, "the network is the computer."
Which I learned today was abandoned by Sun or Oracle and was adopted and re-registered as a trademark by Cloudflare in 2019.
- pjmlp 5y agoThey did, from SUN RPC, they moved into Distributed Objects Everywhere with Objective-C/OpenSTEP, which then gave birth to RMI and J2EE. Containers are basically Java application servers, rebooted as language agnostic OS services.