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On 28/06/2025 00:10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:52:32 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

I cannot believe that this post from Sun is still on the wayback
machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070620081114/https://coolthreads.dev.java.net/ >>
I am the VZoom project. :^D I won a new SunFire T2000 server from that,
before it was available for public purchase.

A last, desperate grab for relevance from Sun, still trying to claim
some kind of edge for its proprietary systems, even while Linux (and
Windows Server, still a contender then) were eating the last shreds of
its market. It was acquired by Oracle not long after that, wasn’t it.

We sold our last Sun based solution in 2014 and recognised back then that it
was only because we were behind in Linux by a few months. They were good.
Really good. Ridiculously easy hardware to get into and work on and add
memory or replace a part. Then Linux and commodity x86 server hardware got
better.

There are a couple of Sun boxes out in the field and no one likes to log
into them. In the intervening years we've expunged a lot of proprietary
stuff. Notably Oracle, Oracle Java and Sybase. Those are costs most modern
software companies can't afford to pass on anymore.

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