Wow.I totally forgot that I had told that story. > On Feb 6, 2020, at 1:59 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's the awesome YouTube version of that textual explication: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Q39MuTvk > > :-) > > Gj > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:58 PM James Gosling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >>
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