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If it meant that people who didn't want to do software didn't ans people who wanted to do software did software, then it sounds nice. I was never interested in
by kaladin-jasnah 1y ago
If it meant that people who didn't want to do software didn't ans people who wanted to do software did software, then it sounds nice. I was never interested in making a lot of money in software.
A question, though. Was software designed at Sun closely with hardware teams and vice versa, or were they mostly disjoint? Presumably many hardware companies that have succeeded have built good tooling around said hardware (like NVIDIA).
- ghaff 1y agoI didn't actually work there; I knew a lot of the folks from the perspective of an IT industry analyst both during and after a lot of the work there. I certainly saw some level of integration with things like Dtrace (how couldn't you) but when you were a systems company, it's probably the case that software folks couldn't really just divorce themselves from hardware. The low-level software work at Data General where I was prior to the analyst biz was certainly integrated to a certain degree--read Soul of a New Machine if you haven't. The software folks for the minis were also mostly in the same same location. As things migrated to Unix, most of that team was in RTP and it's probably fair to say that there was less integration though probably wasn't something I thought about a lot of the time. Hardware stayed in Massachusetts.