Sun CEO: "Proprietary"... Did More Damage to Sun Than Any Market Downturn | Linux Today

Sun CEO: “Proprietary”… Did More Damage to Sun Than Any Market Downturn

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Apr 12, 2007

[ Thanks to Jose for
this link. ]

“Jonathan Schwartz said something very interesting on his blog
today. (I wish he blogged more, and with fewer happy Sun employee
faces in his blogs, but this one was good.) He was talking about
Sun’s licensing of its Neptune ASIC to Marvell, and made this
comment:

“For years we were called proprietary–a moniker that did more
damage to Sun than any market downturn. And frankly, we’ve spent
years recovering…”


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