Yeah Sun blew it. Like Ford when they were printing $15 billion a year on Expeditions and Explorer SUVs. Sun had incredible people like Joy and von Bechtolsheim. Scott was more worried about lowering his golf handicap at his second (more like first) home at Pebble Beach. He is a scractch golfer aka possibly the best CEO golfer. He probably could have turned pro. Also he played a lot of hockey in leagues while running Sun.
Sad.
Yeah Scotty was big on H1-Bs - they also killed Motorola. MOT nuked the place and turned it into Mumbai and it killed MOT.
I once had some minor dealings with GE and IBM corporate. GE were the most arrogant creeps you ever met. This was at HQ in CT. The experience with IBM were possibly worse. Some really devious stuff that felt like the Sopranos.
> Scott was more worried about lowering his golf handicap
Not to mention his stupid pi$$ing match with Microsoft - Java a Windows Killer indeed ...