Story: Sun's Mobile Blunders
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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What's the Difference Between Sun and IBM?
Sun was a huge company with hardware being the actual main thing that Sun did, you know, Sun did huge, huge servers. And in 2001, Google sort of revolutionized that whole idea by using PCs. People didn't actually think that you could build internet websites on PCs and actually build them to scale. eBay, Yahoo, everyone was running on Sun hardware. All the operators, you went to telcos, everything. It's all like racks of Sun everywhere. What the rest of Sun thought of this effort is hard to say because you've decided not to tell them.
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