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I like this joke about Sun's management One of the jokes I make, which is 100% correct, is we had several managers during this time and the higher up manag
by adamgordonbell 4y ago
I like this joke about Sun's management
One of the jokes I make, which is 100% correct, is we had several managers during this time and the higher up managers left, one of them left to run, essentially Nokia, and another one left to run Research in Motion.
And these are managers that made really terrible strategic decisions at Sun, sort of betting the company in terms of the UI strategy in the desktop and in mobile.
And the joke is that we sort of imploded and took with us other companies during that implosion with our bad management decisions.
- pjmlp 4y agoUntil around 2005, Linux was mostly a UNIX clone to use at home, given the choice Solaris would be something to pick at work, among other commercial UNIX vendors, NeWS was much more interesting than X. Also from customer side, JavaFX was very badly managed, from tooling in IDEs, documentation, packaging across JVMs. Apparently they finally reckognised that it just be bundled together, and so OpenJX apparently is going to be rebundled, in newer versions, although probably too late. So yeah managers. It was a nice episode to listen to, thanks for the podcast.