Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors

Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as ... by phs318u on Saturday December 29, 2018 @04:16AM (#18782777)

I think you'll find that Ellison's "vision" of network computing was literally acquired when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. Sun's fifth employee, John Gage, coined the phrase "the network is the computer" in 1984 [0].

Ken Olsen (Digital Equipment Corp) is also reputed to have shared this view as far back as 1987 [1].

[0] https://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/334210/pictures-r...

[1] https://slidex.tips/download/don-t-forget-the-network

EDITED to fix URL [1]

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Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as ... by wisecommentator on Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:50AM (#18783043)

>I think you'll find that Ellison's "vision" of network computing was literally acquired when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems.

That’s incorrect. Acquisition of Sun cane much later. “Network is the computer” is very different from Ellison’s Network Computing because in Ellison’s vision complexity is centralized and end-user devices are glorified dumb terminals which is very different from Sun’s “Network is the computer”

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Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as ... by the_duke on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:00AM (#18784149)

You know, most PR firms operate with a bit more subtelty.

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