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Re:Ask HN: What caused the downfall of Sun Microsystem? by shoo on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:54PM (#40693309)
Joel Spolsky touched on Sun in Strategy Letter V (2002): https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

> Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements. [...]

> Headline: Sun Develops Java; New “Bytecode” System Means Write Once, Run Anywhere. [...]

> Sun’s enthusiasm for WORA [write once run anywhere] is, um, strange, because Sun is a hardware company. Making hardware a commodity is the last thing they want to do.

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