All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows Staring into Sun | CR 302
Sun Microsystems was fertile ground for what might be the largest developer upset in ten years. We look back at some of the real innovations Sun brought us, discuss the latest developments in Oracle's suit against Google, and the massive shift Microsoft announced today.
This is one of those episodes we’ll be referencing back to for quite a while.
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