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Linux ate Sun, I ran a sun lab, had a few sun workstations at home, but really preferred my linux/BSD boxes. BSD/Linux ate into Cisco. You could buy multipo

Linux ate Sun, I ran a sun lab, had a few sun workstations at home, but really preferred my linux/BSD boxes. BSD/Linux ate into Cisco. You could buy multiport ethernet cards, throw it into a linux PC and have your own router/firewall that offered more features than Cisco. MySQL would have eaten into Oracle, but their stupid MyISAM got in the way.

DrFalkyn 2y ago
MySQL would never have eaten Oracle. Oracle had /has a huge installed base of corporate/government customers who are risk adverse to switching out their database for fear of breaking critical systems. No one building a business today would ever choose Oracle, but their hold on legacy customers is pretty strong. They will probably die a slow death as their customer base dwindles if they can’t pivot. They are fairly similar to IBM
- fc417fc802 2y ago
  > They are fairly similar to IBM This feels unfair. When was the last time for example that Oracle manufactured a CPU?
  - RF_Savage 2y ago
    Apparently in September 2017, when they introduced the SPARC M8.
    - fc417fc802 2y ago
      They discontinued development though. It was meant as a lighthearted comment. They are indeed weirdly similar in some ways. Maybe Oracle will start developing quantum chips.
zombiwoof 2y ago
Yup, Linux ate Sun and Sun shot Java in the head hiring Jonathan Schwartz I don’t care what anyone or the courts say: Android stole Java and Google and all the ex Java people it hired know it Imagine the outcome if Java was licensed correctly and Schwartz didn’t just give to Eric
- hylaride 2y ago
  On one hand, you're probably right. On the other, I'm pretty happy Larry Ellison doesn't own Java.