Dan Baigent is senior director of corporate development with Sun Microsystems. He’s also one of the most candid inside observers on the failures that brought Sun to the point that it had to be bailed out by Oracle in a $7.4 billion acquisition, down from Sun’s bubble-era peak of a $200 billion-plus valuation.
In a series of blog posts, Baigent starts to identify Sun’s top 10 failures, and their consequences, as he seeks to describe how Sun got to this point.
Actually, he only managed to get his first three reasons posted before the posts were pulled down. However, Google cached them and you can find below.”