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Re:Sun: The Network Is the Computer by wkat4242 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:56AM (#34763242)
One of the most innovative companies absorbed by the company whose only innovation is finding new legal loopholes to screw more money out of their customers. Some fates are worse than disappearance.
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Re:Sun: The Network Is the Computer by forgetfulness on Sunday February 12, 2023 @03:50PM (#34766795)
At least they began iterating more quickly on Java, I remember as years went by and Sun's OOP purists were still saying that they were considering anonymous functions but just couldn't decide on the syntax.
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Re:Sun: The Network Is the Computer by smackeyacky on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:16PM (#34767072)
That's not entirely fair to Oracle. Their original database had a big impact. It was only later that their business model switched to screwing their own customers as hard as possible.
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