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Ex-Sun guys started it actually. The SGI guys joined later.
by gregw2 2y ago
Ex-Sun guys started it actually. The SGI guys joined later.
- JonChesterfield 2y agoSun was a treasure. Lots of the engineering leads at AMD have Sun on their CVs.
- cdshn 2y agoWow, cool. Too late to edit, but I think the main point stands, the founders and early employees were all from giants with feet of clay who collapsed because they ignored the consumer market.
- gregw2 2y agoI agree they effectively ignored the consumer market and died. But it wasn't because they didn't see it coming. It just is, in practice, hard for a billion dollar b2b company to embrace the consumer market even when they recognize it as an existential threat. For more what I mean by that, I wrote an SGI retrospective at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960660 (Sun or SGI might have escaped if they'd merged with then-weak Apple/NeXT, but it's not clear if that would have helped Apple be more successful in hindsight.)