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What Sun got wrong

692 points · 437 comments · chmaynard

  1. DrScientist · · focus · HN ↗
    In it's heyday Sun shone very brightly indeed and was key to stopping a dismal Microsoft hegemony in the late 1990s.

    In the end commoditisation eat it's lunch, just as with SGI, and they didn't manage to adapt in time.

    A lesson for AI companies perhaps....

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