What Sun Got Wrong

Oxide’s annual meetup in Emeryville featured t-shirts honoring Sun Microsystems, prompting reflection on Sun’s failures. In 2005 a startup using OpenSolaris sought Sun hardware but received poor support, contrasting with Dell’s swift, customer-centric response, as detailed in the blog “The Sun Doesn’t Shine on Me.” The author later joined that startup and co-founded Oxide with the former Dell executive.