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I disagree. With web and distributed computing I could anything I wanted by putting together “turds.” I think Sun failed because they thought that expensive, c

I disagree. With web and distributed computing I could anything I wanted by putting together “turds.” I think Sun failed because they thought that expensive, complicated hardware and software was required for business. And it was for like old business. But new, Internet businesses meant lots of small distributed tasks that didn’t require anything that Sun made and could be done on el cheapo hardware and software. It’s like those old people who complained that mp3 wasn’t as good audio as whatever. They’re right but it doesn’t matter. Obviously, Sun hardware was better but it was like 100x the cost for 3x improvement. So everyone did the math and skipped Sun. And people sound funny complaining about turds.

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I could anything I wanted by putting together “turds.” You could, but it wouldn't be very good. Perhaps you noticed, but many others share your opinion and have in fact done that exact thing, and the results are not very good, which to me personally is completely logical and understandable. The above is not obvious to you? It’s like those old people who complained that mp3 wasn’t as good audio as whatever. They’re right but it doesn’t matter. Thank you for providing a good example of what I wrote earlier: throwing pearls before swine who are not capable of understanding it to be able to appreciate or pick it over "good enough". IT is a shitty industry, and your example illustrates, in part, quite well why that is so. If I live to see my retirement, it will be one of the happiest days of my life because I won't be putting up with that kind of shit any more.