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Sun kept touting a service that we would call cloud, and I kept trying to buy it for one of my financial clients, but it never happened...
by DamonHD 4y ago
Sun kept touting a service that we would call cloud, and I kept trying to buy it for one of my financial clients, but it never happened...
- tinus_hn 4y agoSun was very much enterprise, nice reliability and support but commodity hardware completely blew them away for most purposes. They were still selling $10k workstations when a cheap consumer PC running Linux would run laps around it.
- unxdfa 4y agoLinux didn't even dent it in my universe back then. Between 1996 and 1999 we switched our internal systems from Solaris to NT. Even our Oracle on HP/UX estate got eaten by SQL Server 7. Our 1999 capex and opex was 25% of what it was in 1996 and we delivered more benefits to our users.
- forgetfulness 4y agoIt was nigh impossible to find on their website a place where you could pay them to sell you things, it was sad but not surprising that they were going under.