The Ledger
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Waters: Sun lost hundreds of millions overnight making OpenSolaris free
“Well, what happened was that overnight, like hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue evaporated.”
Casado: Tech supercycles originate with prosumer adoption before enterprise penetration
“Every time we have a super cycle, it tends to start, you know, in these prosumer ways, right? The internet did this, right? Like, remember when Sun outlawed the browser, right? This is like Sun Microsystems, right? But they didn't really know how to consume it…”
Sun offered Andreessen a job on the team building Java's precursor
“I got an offer actually from Sun at the time which had a had a unit, they had a software unit of Sun at the time called First Person which was creating what became Java later with James Gosling.”
Mark Leslie: Sun Microsystems offered top salespeople Rolexes to break comp plans
“So, they got their five top salesmen in the world, and they brought them into the home office, and they said, the guy who breaks the compensation plan most significantly gets a gold Rolex. It worked. They found out all the holes in the plan.”
Levine: Fidelity and Morgan Stanley defined the legacy data center blueprint
“So, 10 years ago, everyone would look at Fidelity and Morgan Stanley, and those were the prototypes for the data center. And it was, guess what? It was EMC storage, an Oracle database, a Sun Microsystems server, and a Cisco switch. And the entire world copied …”