There goes the Sun...there goes the sun and I say...
Oracle Buys Sun - Gearlog
I’m not sure how to feel about this. I know it probably went under a lot of people’s radar, but it almost feels like the passing of a rival. Something you wished would happen earlier, but not something you really wanted to happen because they made life interesting. Scott McNealy’s keynote blastings of Microsoft were legendary and at times very humorous. The “we’re the dot, in dot com” ads always gave me a chuckle. Yup, they part of what made being an employee of Microsoft during the late 90s and early 2000s fun.
It wasn’t all about the products, they made hockey interesting as well. There were a few charity Sun v. Microsoft hockey games played through the early part of this decade. They ended up being events all to themselves. A good way to let out some frustrations and have some fun with your rivals at the same time.
All in all it was a good little feud, some barbs, a little blood (very little at a hockey game) and a lawsuit here and there. But as a good feud should do, it drove of us to make our products better in the end.
Bon chance Sun.
That said, ol’ Larry Ellison has never been a close friend of Microsoft either. :)
I’ll have the next part in the UMDF Filter series later this week.
