Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, spoke at my biz school ~2000. Someone asked about the competitive threat of Dell + Linux. He ranted for a long time about Dell being

Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, spoke at my biz school ~2000. Someone asked about the competitive threat of Dell + Linux. He ranted for a long time about Dell being junk and SunOS vastly better than Linux. Everyone after felt Sun was doomed. They crashed a few years later. It was a textbook Innovator’s Dilemma case.