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Good talk. Best quote...

"Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison."

Warner

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 2:44 AM, <jason-tuhs at shalott.net> wrote:

>
>    > Solaris: so bad I left the company.
>>>
>>
> Why was Solaris so much worse than SunOS?
>>>
>>
> But that was a kick in the nuts to us engineers.  The sytem v source base
>> was crap compared to sunos, a huge step backwards.
>>
>> So my crowd pretty much all left in disgust.  There was a lot of
>> heartache over it.  None of us knew about the business deal at the time, in
>> fact I think a lot of management didn't know.
>> [...]
>> Instead, they repeated the SunOS journey.  Bryan and crew polished that
>> turd for years and got it sort of reasonable. [...] but they went for it
>> and got it better.  Only to have it tossed away again.  Yuck.
>>
>
> For anyone who hasn't seen it, there's a pretty good talk that gives the
> two-minute version of what Larry has described, and then picks up the story
> from there and runs with it over the next twentyish years:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
>
>
>  -Jason
>
>
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