Sun turns 25

Saturday Sun turned 25 years old. What's the best way to celebrate the event, you are wondering. Sophomoric pranks, perhaps?

Showing appropriate respect for the now-elderly corporation is undoubtedly in order. When Microsoft turned 25, here are some of the impressions with which one veteran observer commemorated the occasion:

Microsoft's PC-era heyday... is over. Microsoft hasn't made good on some of its plans.... ...failure to deliver... has thrown its contracts... into jeopardy. ...the perception that the company is just not as cutting edge as it used to be. Microsoft has lost a lot of its luster.... All the good people are gone.... The exciting stuff is all happening elsewhere.

(Mary Foley, ZDNet News, August 31, 2000)

So maybe Steve Jobs was just wishing Sun a happy birthday when he called Java "a big heavyweight ball and chain that no one is using anymore."

Posted by Mike Swaine at 11:43 AM  Permalink