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These two things are not the same. You don’t hang around with enough ex-Sun people if you haven’t heard derogatory comments about McNealy. But his ultimate fai
by KerrAvon 4y ago
These two things are not the same.
You don’t hang around with enough ex-Sun people if you haven’t heard derogatory comments about McNealy. But his ultimate failure at Sun wasn’t the same scale, and Sun was never as well managed or universally revered as HP.
- ghaff 4y agoI guess I hang around with different ex-Sun people because, however Sun ended up eventually, they're all pretty praising of McNealy and Sun's culture. One thing McNealy did get right is that Sun was pretty much the only one of the large Unix vendors that wasn't at least preparing for the possibility of an all-Microsoft future with NT. (IBM was arguably placing more of a small side bet that execs like Mills didn't really believe in but almost no one besides Sun dismissed NT out of hand.
- pjmlp 4y agoYet Solaris is gone for all practical purposes, while Aix is still seeing new sales beyond plain maintenance, with increase in 2022.