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I was an intern at Sun in menlo park in 2002 for a year. One of the oddest memories was going to a town hall and listening to Jonathan Schwartz (then CTO) answe
by alasdair_ 12y ago
I was an intern at Sun in menlo park in 2002 for a year. One of the oddest memories was going to a town hall and listening to Jonathan Schwartz (then CTO) answering the question "but how will this make the company any money?"
His answer was that engineers shouldn't concern themselves with how any of their work would make money - that was the job of other people. Even then, it seemed like a recipe for making cool stuff no one would buy.
- nailer 12y agoI was at Red Hat's then tiny Asia Pacific office with a couple of ex-Sun sales guys in 2003. The recipe was to walk into all their old customers, replace whatever expensive-yet-underpowered SPARC-based box they were were running with a Xeon box running RHL (then later RHEL), and outperform it. Sun had great software (shitty stuff, like the old IP stack, got replaced), but their on-again-off-again relationship with Intel screwed them.