Employee (Almost) Chronicles Sun's Top Ten Failures 194
Business and Open Source pundit Matt Asay picked up on a recent attempt by Sun's Dan Baigent to chronicle the ten largest failures that took the tech giant from a $200 billion peak valuation to the recent buyout by Oracle for a mere $7.4 billion. Unfortunately, Dan only made it to number three on his list before Sun pulled the plug. How long will it take corporate overlords until they finally realize that broad level censorship and trying to control the message are far more harmful than just becoming part of the discourse? "I find that I tend to learn much more from my failures than from my successes. I'd be grateful for the chance to learn from Sun's, too. Sun, please let Baigent continue his countdown. It allows Sun to constructively chronicle its own failings, rather than allowing others to do so in less generous terms."
And the number one reason why Sun failed (Score:5, Funny)
1. Not enough free soda pop.
*cue Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra to play something catchy*
Re:This seems like a valid guess, though .... (Score:4, Funny)
And our number one failure of Sun:
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Somewhere in that list should be.... (Score:5, Funny)
Correction (Score:4, Funny)
FTFY.
L.E.
Reason #5 (Score:1, Funny)
5. Turns out Gosling preferred tea.
Re:I see parallels to Apple (Score:3, Funny)
> I think Schwartz was not a good choice to lead Sun after McNealy left.
> There is one good thing that came out of Sun in the last couple years, though: open-sourcing of Solaris.
I think Schwartz is a closet hippie (witness the pony-tail). He snuck into Sun pretending to be an MBA-bearing preppie, and when he got there, he looked around and said, "SHIT! We'd better open source everything we can before somebody buys us and locks all this great software up forever!"
Re:#1 Reason for Sun's Demise... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:a priori (Score:4, Funny)
As we feared: he was trying to be an open source.
Now he's closed.
Re:Reason #2 (Score:5, Funny)
Mod me a troll for saying this, but it's the truth so I don't care.
I went to college with one of the current Solaris kernel developers. This was one of the dirtiest people I've ever met. This guy washed himself at most once a week. There was one summer day when I left my dorm room and a I saw some people pissed off down the hall. I started walking towards them when this crippling stench hit me in the face. It was coming from that guy's room. He smelled so awful that everyone in the same alley as that guy's room was enraged by the stench!
One time I went to take a shower but that guy was in the adjoining shower. His underwear was on a bench. It was the most repulsive thing I had ever seen. The thing had a brown crust on the back and a yellow crust on the front. I'm surprised anyone could walk around in those things without them making a crackling noise.
With the people that Sun hires it is not at all surprising the company is going tits up.