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What happens when the secret sauce isn't secret any more, and the people who made it have moved on? Sun Microsystems happens: a decade of stagnation followed b
by beedogs 14y ago
What happens when the secret sauce isn't secret any more, and the people who made it have moved on?
Sun Microsystems happens: a decade of stagnation followed by a quick and brutal collapse.
- rachelbythebay 14y agoFair enough. I like using SGI as an example, especially given that G moved into their campus right there. There are still a few reminders of that which came before, like the plaque in the park, and until a few years ago, a list of conference room names: superscalar, pipeline, etc. I understand that SGI had a whole wing of building 40 set up for customer demos. G turned it into a bunch of interview rooms named after programming languages. Well, that is, until 2011. Apparently it's been turned into a huge customer demo room again if my mol^H^H^Hsources are to believed. There's a lot of eye rolling any time I ask about it.