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The January rumours were true and on Friday Oracle laid off the core talent from the Solaris and SPARC teams, in effect finally killing what they had left of Sun Microsystems. When Oracle aquired Sun, there were a lot of valuable assets, each of which, except VirtualBox, has been squandered and abandoned. Simon Phipps enumerates the main ones and what happened to them.
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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Tuesday September 05 2017, @06:19PM (4 children)
I really wonder what took them so long. I guess SUN had nobody to blame but themselves, that said I'll miss them. I liked working with SUN products, I preferred it over other hardware and software solutions at the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 05 2017, @06:29PM (3 children)
You miss the good old days of Stanford University Network? It's a wonder Stanford didn't sue their goddamned asses to change the fucking trade name long ago.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:14PM (2 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 05 2017, @09:42PM (1 child)
Well you would know. Stanford graduates know only Stanford graduates are any good. So do you have a Stanford degree or a Sanford degree?
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday September 06 2017, @12:26AM
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