Changes create new winners and losers. At the time the crash was just starting to happen, I interviewed at Sun for a job in the Java compiler group. Their off

Changes create new winners and losers. At the time the crash was just starting to happen, I interviewed at Sun for a job in the Java compiler group. Their office was just off the De Anza and 280 exit in Cupertino. They told me how their neighbor Apple hadn't been doing well,and how they were gradually taking over all the office space near them. The folks I interviewed with thought Apple would be history in a few years, and being a hardware company that was doing well, they would deal with the crash just fine. I believed them. Apple made a complete comeback. Sun went through many rounds of layoffs before it was swallowed by Oracle. Luckily for me I ended up taking another job at a company that was one of the few to do relatively well during the crash. Till this day I am grateful I did not take the Sun offer.