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7.4 billion: Sun Microsystems. Creators of SPARC, Solaris and Java. 10 billion: Facebook. Creators of an applet that lets you water plants. How the fsck does

• eugenejen 17y ago
  It is a different market. One is public, another is private market. Another is about making something people want. There are less people uses Sparc, Solaris, Java than people wants a "platform" to write applet that let you water plants. (How many people has to use java, sparc, solaris? less than 10 million globally, How many people has to use facebook to check their friends? 100 millon+) The world is cruel. You can put your heart and soul in inventing some cool stuffs that worked behind tables and only few appreciate them. So if we wants to do cool stuffs, you have to forget claps from the audience.
  • philwelch 17y ago
    If you add together all the Solaris or Sparc servers and Java programs in the world, the direct and indirect users would probably dwarf Facebook's. And that's not even considering the value of each application--I use Facebook but it's not especially valuable to me, while a certain Java app in my bank's backend might be more valuable.
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