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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: SUN, JavaSoft, Java, Oracle
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Scott McNealy (@scottmcnealy), co-founder of Sun Microsystems, about:
how Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Scott started Stanford University Network (SUN), Onyx Systems and
Pizza Boxes for 40k USD, Sun opensourced 80% of its R & D budget, Sun was top 40 R & D spenders, opensource lowers the barrier to exit, IBM buying RedHat, Sun was the first company in 1982 shipping with TCP/IP, Scott was smart and the other founders were brilliant, Bill Joy wanted to open NFS or "what is a phone worth which doesn't connect with other phones",
Java Ring was on the cover...