What Sun Got Wrong
Bryan Cantrill reflects on Sun Microsystems' operational failures, arguing boredom with business mechanics doomed the company despite strategic wins.
Oxide co-founder Bryan Cantrill argues Sun Microsystems failed because it grew bored with the mechanics of running a business, citing a 2005 episode where a startup running OpenSolaris could not get Sun to answer sales calls while Dell closed the deal in under two weeks. He frames Sun's open-source strategy as a success undermined by operational failure. The post accompanied OxCon tribute t-shirts honoring defunct computer companies.
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3 min read at bcantrill.dtrace.orgWe have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some
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