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What Sun got wrong

692 points · 437 comments · chmaynard

  1. justin66 · · focus · HN ↗
    Having read a lot of these things from ex-Sun employees, I dearly want to read one with the topic my department is the one that fucked up Sun. I don't think I have seen a topic like that yet.
    1. jhbadger · · focus · HN ↗
      I seriously don't know what Sun could have done to survive - once Linux was stable, running Linux on commodity hardware was just a better solution than anything Sun could offer.
      1. bluGill · · focus · HN ↗
        They should have seen commodity hardware coming and built cheaper hardware themselves. They could have. Other companies were making clone Spark machines for much less so it would have been possible.
        1. tkhattra · · focus · HN ↗
          sure, they shoulda woulda coulda, but isn't that the innovator's dilemma?
          1. bluGill · · focus · HN ↗
            Yes. There were lots of other things they could have done.
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