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@DenOfEarth @ytc1 @aka_pugs well #WindowsNT owned the workstation market because #Vendors like #SGI & #Sun failed to innovate...

  • Abeit sgi hals self-inflicted that by removing the reasons to buy their stuff when they switched to #Itanium #CPU|s and #nvidia #GPU|s and not developing #IRIX any further!

#SunMicrosystems at least didn't stall in terms of #Software, but once #Oracle acqured them and started shaking down Sun Technology users for "#IP infringement" and "License Violations" they basically made using anythibg but #Linux a bad choice on #Servers!

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@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.

And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...

-> infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146825

One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.

  • Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.

Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...

Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...

  • Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

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Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@DenOfEarth@mas.to @aka_pugs@mastodon.social I know. Cade in point, #OpenSolaris did have avid users just below that range, and a lot of #ScientificComputing used it, as they previously used #IRIX. And #Sun being #OpenSourve-friendly was the right direction...
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@aka_pugs Another funny story. I first met Terry Miller when I interviewed with him at HP Labs after I graduated mid 1986. I didn’t get the job. I did get a job a #Sun and I started later that year. Not long after, who did I see walking down the hall at Sun for HIS interview, was Terry Miller. And Sun hired him and he got a patent out of it too.

Another great Jon Feiber story. In the 1980s Sun had weekly beer busts and there was a raffle where the cash prize was based on the week’s sales bookings, or something like that. One week, Feiber won the raffle. But he had just been promoted to management, and managers weren’t eligible for the raffle. So Feiber sent an announcement saying he was donating the winnings to his favorite non-profit: Sun’s Software Products Division.

(SPD was run by Eric Schmidt at the time.)

OK, it's finally finally up. currently #gcc , #coreutils , plus some support libraries, as a proof of concept. For those who don't know, FractalKit is an in-progress collection of modern packages built for #Solaris 10 #SPARC, and they may work on #Solaris 11 also. They can be downloaded at highenergymagic.net/fractalkit - please let us know if there are any bugs, issues, what have you.

CC: @SolarisDiaspora
#unix #retrocomputing #sunmicrosystems

highenergymagic.netWelcome - FractalKit

An interview with James Gosling on the 30th anniversary of Java. It's a good profile of the man and his work as I knew little about him.

At Sun, Gosling found a rare environment where technical excellence could thrive alongside playful creativity — an atmosphere that clearly shaped his approach to technology and problem-solving throughout his career.

thenewstack.io/java-at-30-the-

The New Stack · Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed TechFrom trash-diving teen to tech pioneer, James Gosling's pragmatic genius shaped three decades of Java and modern computing.

Switzerland is hosting Eurovision this year. How did the country that produced one of the most iconic fonts of all time, that’s even named after their country, decide to use Garamond?!
Helvetica would have been perfection.

(I do appreciate that Garamond italic insofar as it reminds me of the Sun Microsystems wordmark)

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@aka_pugs

Wow, a rich & insightful story, beautifully told.

A period of incredible creativity and enterprise.

"We each followed the other around for a while, thinking they had been there already." Ha, yes, I had a similar experience once, in my field. Thus seniority comes about.

Also, I love the way you use photographs / illustrations as section headings in your blog, brilliant!