[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2024 10:29 AM, chrisq wrote:
> On 1/7/24 14:04, Dan Cross wrote:
>> I remember seeing the writing on the wall when a friend of mine
>> was showing me a Pentium PC: "It's about half the speed of a
>> SPARCstation-5, but a quarter of the cost."  Then they ditched
>> their core business to concentrate on Java standards.  That's
>> when it was obvious Sun was going to fail: it was just a matter
>> of time.
>>
> 
> Perhaps Sun did lose their way a bit, but it was the early 90's
> recession, the dot com boom crash, that caused the most damage.
> Dozens of companies went bust and in some ways, that culture
> of innovation and progress has never recovered since. It's been
> an interesting journey though :-)...

Sun had a problem:
- Solaris/SPARC servers were more expensive than Linux/x86-64 servers
- the applications running on Solaris/SPARC was typical not that
   difficult to port to Linux

Asking for a premium without sufficient vendor lock-in is a bad
business case.

Arne