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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by lkrubner on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:44AM (#13210277)
"If you have a really strong platform, technical superiority and you employ one of the best people in the world you must be in a deep shit if you screw up that much."

Well, by that line of reasoning, all the mistakes belong to Sun MicroSystems, not Oracle. And you actually make the case for what Oracle is doing -- trying to be the opposite of Sun.

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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by holydude on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:53AM (#13210305)
Sun failed to monetize. Oracle failed to sustain the business and compete.
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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by rad_gruchalski on Monday December 19, 2016 @05:12AM (#13210533)
What business if Sun failed to monetize?
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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by holydude on Monday December 19, 2016 @05:18AM (#13210555)
Sun failed to make money. They had great products but failed to make money out of them. Oracle did great for some time (resurrected SPARC and Solaris) but they also made a lot of the great people leave (Nexenta, Joyent etc etc).
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Re:Update on Oracle Layoffs by gaius on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:14AM (#13211145)
Sun commoditized hardware and operating systems with "write once run anywhere". Then they commoditized software with free stuff, such as OpenOffice, VirtualBox, etc. Then the music stopped and, having no consulting operation to speak of, they had nowhere to sit.
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