Almost annexation of apples, the Empire company in fall within 1 year-Sun, Oracle, Microsoft IT information
Backed by large bays, 230,000 m2 village townhouses, visitors stream ... ... No doubt, this is the headquarters of menluopake, 1th hacker Street--Facebook. The world famous social networking tools, and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a recent United States authority science and technology media announced The Verge of America's most popular CEO survey, ranked first.
In Facebook before you rent here as headquarters, where there had been another Empire company.
Silicon Valley at that time, was hurricane of information industry, at that time, there is also not a hacker Street. The great shining company was here, on the road to it hang open, its trend compared with Facebook, is comparable.
It is Sun Microsystems (Sun Microsystems)!
From the market value of 200 billion to fall, only spent a year!
Sun company, founded in 1982. In the Sun's brilliant when market value of us $ 200 billion, far exceeding the then Google and IBM. 4 years has been listed on the NASDAQ, the all-time fastest. Sun was the first to enter the Chinese market, and computer companies working directly with the Government.
"Sun Microsystems", "Sun", the name for people who experienced the Internet originated in China, it is famous.
However, such a behemoth, eventually took only a year's time, fail. The scene, was more than a "tragic" to describe ... ...
Saga: almost devour Steve jobs of Apple
Sun pioneered cloud computing, and advocate of open source, it is also the first to shout out "the network is the computer" slogan when. com when on the Tao Sheng dust, Sun, of course, do the lights. com Web Player, it enables the rapid development of network, spread worldwide.
However, Sun Founder Scott, in 28 years in Sun invented Java is his most favorite thing.
Java Sun market up sharply, more than US $ 200 billion. All the networking giant spirits, IBM, HP, Microsoft dedicated is configured for Java development team, global care of millions of software engineers in Java, obsessed with Java.
? Zhanmusi·gaosilin, worked at Sun during the create a Java
However, the Sun almost devour Steve jobs of Apple is the legend.
In early 1996, Sun's stock market rushed to the top, and Apple's stock dropped to the freezing point, on the stock market price of $ 5 per share. On January 26, a tech blog Suck.com, Sun and Apple talks, willing to work for $ 3.89 billion price to buy Apple.
Thus, in an Analyst Conference on Tuesday, when Sandor, a Sun Executive prepares to announce plans to buy Apple. He cleared his throat, was about to read the plan, investment bankers suddenly one of the apples stand out strongly against it. He made a number of harsh conditions, forcing the Sun eventually dropped its bid.
Legend II: war with Microsoft's life and death
In addition to Apple, Sun and the technology giant Microsoft undergoing a years-long fight to the death.
80 's of last century, borrowed PC Dongfeng, Wintel Alliance of Microsoft and Intel to victory. Microsoft Windows operating system once dominated the PC market as a whole, was a huge success, but it ignored the development of the Internet, is also a production is famous for its browser software, Netscape (Netscape) to seize the lead, which was introduced in Microsoft's browser software .
In 1985, Sun Sparc RISC CPU was successfully worked out, significantly improves performance for the workstation. Coupled with its Unix-based server systems can directly against traditional Chinese HP and DEC minicomputers.
At that time, Sun invented Java language, Java language structure, strong and secure, real-time operation, suitable for the preparation of browser software. In 1996, Microsoft met the Sun, the two hit it off, Microsoft's use of Java to develop IE browser.
When IE successfully coming to Microsoft bundling IE into the OS, many computer users have to use IE as your browser software. Netscape was a strong impulse was eventually United States online (AOL) acquired.
So how was originally a close ally of Microsoft and Sun turn cruel? Java also mercilessly abandoned by Windows?
Because Microsoft realized that Java is not only a language, it is likely to be. COM replacement. COM is the Windows programming model. Microsoft began a sweep to Java, Sun, not to be trifled with?
A years-long tug of war between the two sides.
In June 2000, with Microsoft. NET strategy, two companies escalated into the future battle of life and death.
Also this year, Sun finally fell down from the altar, the Sun is about to fall.
Sun's final fall
From business to prosperity, Sun has spent the past 20 years, caprice was only used for a year.
Sun failed, the reason or continue to occupy the dominant position of the hardware culture misleads business development. Sun was started from the hardware, Sun's understanding of the market entirely from the perspective of hardware manufacturers, emphasizing the high-end, low volume, high value, and the deployment of network computing .
Software product features and functionality, software, commanding an army of trend in the market, these sales targets, partner, channel program and supply chain management before mention.
Sun is open Solaris really most valuable system and classic Java, but they are not very good use of them.
Perhaps because the hardware and operating system very well sold, Mcnealy, founder of large and medium enterprises selling this stuff, hardware Empire. However, he ignores the Microsoft and Intel are free and services erode the market for small businesses and computer users, secretly and guerrilla warfare.
In 2000, the United States came the dotcom bubble, and large and small enterprises shut down numerous. Sun dismal sales, a $ 900 million profit from a year ago, turned into a loss of 500 million dollars.
Although in 2000 the post-bubble, Mcnealy resigns, Schwartz took over, leaning to sell property, including Facebook headquarters where the Park now, let the company out of the Red; open source Solaris to grab back some of the market share; IT technology services strong cash flow ... ... But it was powerless.
In 2001, the Sun has become a United States second-tier technology companies, never par with giants like Microsoft, IBM and Apple.
In 2009, Sun acquired by Oracle for $ 7.4 billion, more than 200 billion market value of just dissipated in the trend of the history of the Internet.
Today, Apple's market capitalization is $ 540 billion, is the year of 142 times. In contrast, Sun, after the acquisition by Oracle, the company experienced continuous shuffling, almost all of the team to leave.
Funny thing is, Sun curtain does not represent Newby's one lonely, more people left the Sun opened his own path of glory:
Weinuode·kesila quit management in 1984, founder, Netscape browser in 1995 created the revolutionary ;
Tough founders technology Andi·beituoxiemu the best of angel investors in Silicon Valley, he voted in Google and NVIDIA (Nividia), companies such as Tapulous;
Image point, Sun lonely, just as arbitrary a BAT today, in less than a year, in the domestic Internet industry disappear. The company with its bloody lessons tell us: no matter how big the company, just a step away from death.
In business on the road, you should never attempt to half-relieved.
差点吞并
苹果，这家帝国企业竟在1年内陨落 - Sun,甲骨文,
微软 - IT资讯
背靠大海湾，23万m2的村落排屋，访客络绎不绝……不用怀疑，这就是门罗帕克黑客街1号——Facebook的总部。这个世界著名的社交工具，其CEO扎克伯格还在最近美国权威科技媒体The Verge公布的全美最受欢迎CEO调查中，排名第一。
而在Facebook租下这里作为总部之前，这里曾存在过另一家帝国型公司。
那时的硅谷，正被信息工业的飓风席卷，而当年，这里还不叫黑客街。这家牛逼闪闪的公司就是在这儿，走上它的开挂之路，其发展势态与如今Facebook相比，可谓不相上下。
它就是Sun Microsystems（太阳微系统公司）！
从市值两千亿到陨落，只花了一年！
太阳微电子公司，于1982年创立。在Sun最辉煌的时候，市值曾达2000亿美元，远超当时的谷歌和IBM。4年就已经在纳斯达克挂牌上市，堪称史上最快。Sun还是最早进入中国市场，并且直接和政府合作的计算机公司。
“Sun微系统”、“太阳微系统”，这个名字，对经历过中国互联网发源期的人来说，那是如雷贯耳。
然而，这么一个庞然大物，最终仅用了一年的时间，就轰然倒下。其场面，何止是用一个“惨烈”能够形容……
传奇一：差点吞掉乔布斯的苹果
Sun首倡云计算，主张开放源码，它还第一个喊出了“网络就是计算机”的口号，当.com盛嚣尘上之时，Sun理所当然地做了那个点亮.com的网络玩家，它使网络迅速发展，遍铺全球。
但是，对于Sun的创始人斯科特来说，在Sun的28年中，发明Java是他认为最得意的事。
Java使Sun市值大升，一度超过2千亿美元。所有的网络巨头公司为之一振，IBM、HP、微软为Java配置了专门的开发团队，全球几百万软件工程师眷顾于Java，着迷于Java。
▲詹姆斯·高斯林，在供职于Sun期间，创造出Java
然而，差点吞掉乔布斯的苹果才是Sun的传奇。
1996年初，Sun的股票市值冲向巅峰，而苹果的股票降至冰点，在证券市场上的价格为5美元每股。1月26日，一家科技博客Suck.com称，Sun正在和苹果谈判，愿以38.9亿美元总价收购苹果。
于是，在一个周二的分析师大会上，时任Sun高管的桑德尔准备宣布收购苹果的计划。他清了清嗓子，正要宣读计划，突然其中一位苹果的投资银行家站出来极力反对。他提出了许多苛刻条件，迫使Sun最终放弃了收购。
传奇二：与微软的生死大作战
除了苹果以外，Sun还曾和科技巨头微软经历一场长达数年的生死之战。
上世纪80年代，借PC机东风，微软与英特尔组成的Wintel联盟所向披靡。微软生产的Windows操作系统一度控制着整个PC市场，获得巨大成功，但是它却忽略了互联网的发展，被另外一家以生产浏览器软件而闻名的网景公司（Netscape）抢占了先机，它先于微软推出浏览器软件。
1985年，Sun成功研究出了Sparc精简指令型CPU，大幅提高了工作站的性能。再加上它基于Unix的服务器系统，可以直接对抗惠普和DEC这样的传统中式小型计算机。
当时，Sun又恰好发明了Java语言，Java语言结构新颖、可实时操作、而且安全性强，适合用于编写浏览器软件。1996年，微软遇到了Sun，两者一拍即合，微软利用Java开发出IE浏览器。
当IE成功问世时，微软将IE捆绑进操作系统中，使得很多电脑用户不得不使用IE作为浏览器软件。网景因此受到强烈的冲激，最终被美国在线（AOL）收购。
那么原本是亲密战友的Sun与微软是如何翻脸无情？以至Java最后也被Windows无情地抛弃呢？
因为微软意识到Java不仅仅是一种语言，它很可能是.COM的替代者，而.COM恰恰是Windows基于的编程模型。微软开始对Java进行清扫，Sun又岂是好惹的？
于是双方进行了长达数年的拉锯战。
2000年6月开始，随着微软推出.net战略，两个公司的竞争进一步升级，转变为关乎未来的生死较量。
也正是这一年，Sun终于跌下神坛，太阳即将陨落。
太阳的最终陨落
从创业到繁荣，Sun花了近二十年，而倾覆却只用了一年时间。
Sun的失败，究其原因，就是一直占据主流地位的硬件文化误导了企业的发展。Sun是从硬件起家，Sun对于市场的理解，完全从硬件厂商的角度，强调高端、低量、高价值，并以此部署网络计算。
至于软件产品的特性和功能、软件在市场上统领千军万马的趋势，这些在销售指标、合作伙伴、渠道计划及供应链管理面前不值一提。
而Sun真正最为宝贵的是开放的Solaris系统和经典的Java，但是他们并没有很好的利用它们。
或许也因为当时的硬件和操作系统太好卖了，创始人麦克尼利只顾着把这些东西卖给大中型企业，建立硬件的帝国。可是，他却忽略了微软和英特尔正在靠免费和卖服务蚕食的小型企业和微型计算机用户市场，偷偷打着游击战。
2000年，美国互联网泡沫来临，大大小小的企业关停无数。Sun销量惨淡，从一年前盈利9亿美元，瞬间变成亏损5亿美元。
虽然在2000年的泡沫过后，麦克尼利辞职、舒瓦茨接任，靠着卖掉公司多处房产，包括如今Facebook总部所在的园区，让公司扭亏为盈；靠开源Solaris抢回部分市场占有率；用IT技术服务带来了强劲的现金流……但也无力回天。
2001年，Sun已经沦为美国二流的科技公司，再也无法与苹果和微软、IBM这样的巨头比肩了。
2009年，Sun被甲骨文公司以74亿美元收购，2000多亿的市值就这样消散在互联网历史的潮流之中。
今天，苹果的市值是5400亿美元，是当年的142倍。反观Sun，在被甲骨文收购后，公司经历不断洗牌，其团队几乎全部出走。
有趣的是，Sun的落幕不代表牛逼的人也由此落寞，更多人是因为离开了Sun而开启了自己的辉煌之路：
创始人维诺德·科斯拉在1984年退出了管理层，在1995年创立了具有革命意义的网景浏览器；
创始团队技术大拿安迪·贝托谢姆成了硅谷最牛的天使投资人，他投了谷歌、英伟达（Nividia）、Tapulous等公司；
形象点来说，Sun的落寞，就好比如今BAT中任意的一家，在一年之内，于国内的互联网界销声匿迹。而这家公司用它血的教训告诉我们：不论公司有多大，离死亡都只有一步之遥。
在创业的道路上，你永远不要企图松半口气。