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What’s remarkable is that that phrase was already, at that time, notorious for having been a portent of doom at Sun Microsystems.



..and now all that's left of Sun is the wood on the back of the Meta sign.


And the Java/MaximeVM legacy, alongside some entertaining podcast stories.


Every time a socket is instantiated, Sun Microsystems comes alive; so too it is with NFS, and many other core technologies; there is lots that's left of Sun which still makes it live, even though it doesn't officially exist any more.

And any time 0xide Computer ships a cloud in a rack with the Helios operating system powering it, Sun Microsystems shines bright as a beacon of indestructibility due to quality.


All the wood behind one arrow…




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