Sun Microsystems, every mention
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How to Build an Open Source Business
- ▶ 0:44 Peter Levine It's interesting to note here that MySQL, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 for a billion dollars.
a16z Podcast | Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales
- ▶ 23:57 Mark Leslie Sun Microsystems was a very big company with a very big sales force. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 25:04 John Hennessy Hewlett Packard was there, then talent from Hewlett Packard helped build Sun, talent from Intel helped build the first generation of fabulous semiconductor companies, and that spread out over time, and that's one of the great things that…
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 13:47 Benedict Evans And it's like, this many Sunworks, like, how many hundred Sunwork stations with how many Spark chips?
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 11:02 W. Brian Arthur I remember hearing one story that Sun Microsystems had developed Java, and naturally that cost a huge amount of money, so the guys with the green shades, the accountants, were saying, naturally enough, we should charge a huge amount of…
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 1:45 James Waters I worked on open Solaris at Sun.
- ▶ 23:08 James Waters The problem was that Sun was still on the wrong side of all the trends.
a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- ▶ 33:58 Michael Rogers So, Oracle acquired Sun. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
- ▶ 5:19 Brad Peterson Speed and latency around trading that you needed to compute the Sun Microsystems that first were right there on the trading floor, and then big reputable firms had major data centers in Manhattan, and if you think about why would you have…
a16z Podcast | It's Complicated
- ▶ 12:47 Frank Chen Facebook or Netflix, and I would argue that the Wall Street banks build physics thinking into their data centers, which is you had these massive sun servers and EMC arrays and Oracle databases, and you paid attention to every single one of…
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 35:48 Marc Andreessen And then we would, you know, these giant companies, Oracle, and Sun, and Cisco, and, and so on, would, would, would build these great tools, and then would, would sell them to the customers, and the customer might be a consumer at home,…
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 6:48 Peter Levine There was a time when Wall Street was the blueprint for the next-gen data center, and that was, you know, kind of Cisco and EMC and Oracle databases and Sun Microsystems servers, and that was kind of the blueprint, you know, five, 10, 15…
a16z Podcast | Why Every Business is in the Data Business
- ▶ 4:31 Peter Levine It was EMC storage, an Oracle database, a Sun Microsystems server, and a Cisco switch.
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 29:39 Marc Andreessen It's probably an initial outlay of twenty million dollars to get going, and you had to write big checks to these big companies like Sun and EMC and Cisco and Oracle to just get a website up and running.
a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
- ▶ 9:40 Danny Shader Um, maybe Facebook is the new example of that, but every other major company I knew, you know, I've known, you know, whether or not it was Apple or Netscape or sun or pick your favorite, you know, at whatever era, most Google, they all had…
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 18:22 Dave Jagoda This, this is reminding me a little bit of Sun, which I would say was also a hardware company, where they realized Java might help them, help their hardware business along, but it feels like they didn't take it far enough.
a16z Podcast | Demystifying Venture Capital
- ▶ 7:33 Theresa Gao Like, maybe, you know, that was once, it was a billion-dollar company by then, but it had been a startup by a bunch of guys who had left places like Sun and Silicon Graphics.