Re: @AC: ""We're the DOT in dot.com". You truly were."
... In charge of what ? I don't think anybody was in charge at Sun, which was part of the problem.
I'm an ex Sun employee and I've witnessed a lot of arrogance that Scott Mc Neally still displays.
You can also see that arrogance at NetApp which is not surprising, because that's where a lot of Sun employees ended up.
It's not enough to have had good ideas, you also have to be able implememt, productise and bring them to market - and succesfully sell them.
Despite all the good innovation that happened - Sun remained a Server (tin) company till the very end.
Sales Reps were compensated on Hardware sales...a real Dinosaur company.
I recall a Powerpoint Slide Deck during the Storagetek acqusition. STK was portrayed as a Dinosaur mainframe company and Sun was a homo sapiens inventing new stuff every day.
In the end Sun was/is the Dinosaur.....
In a world without markets and money - Sun would have done really well.
And that old Purple thin client was really crap. Anybody would try to get an OSX/Unix type laptop ASAP. Windows was deemed uncool.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
