Here’s a little piece of relevant Sun history you may not know: when I was trying to get Sun to buy NetBeans, the powers-that-be didn’t like it because it wasn’t a “big play”. They wanted to buy a big tool company for a lot of money. They settled on Forté software, which was completely idiotic (they did developer tools for IBM mainframes), but they were expensive (>1$B). I wouldn’t shut up about how idiotic this was, especially given that NetBeans was a much better company with a much better product. I was effectively asked “If we buy both, will you shut up?”. I said OK, Forté crashed and burned, NetBeans sailed on.
You should have charged Sun more. :-) > On Feb 6, 2020, at 1:45 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > > We’re implicitly keeping the Sun flag flying. :-) > > Gj > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 22:27, James Gosling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That was a really nice talk! Thanks for doing it! >> >>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 10:54 PM Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Several of us on the mailing list were at FOSDEM in Brussel yesterday >>>>> (Neil, Jan Lahoda, Martin Entlicher, Patrik Karlstrom) and it was a >>>> pretty >>>>> good event -- I think we should treat FOSDEM as a place where we can >> get >>>>> together every year and share new insights etc around NetBeans. >>>>> >>>>> One of the talks was by me, specifically about the state and direction >> of >>>>> NetBeans, it takes about 20 minutes, take a look here: >>>>> >>>>> https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/fosdem/2020/UD2.119/fromoracleapache.webm >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Gj >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
