sparc transit
True story: the now-former CEO of Sun Microsystems, the day after his company ignominiously succumbed to a buyout by Oracle, announced his inevitable resignation by posting a cute haiku to Twitter:
“Financial crisis / Stalled too many customers / CEO no more.”
For those of us who watched Schwartz preside over the decade-long destruction of what was once the most important technology company in the world, this is a fitting final insult: revisionist, myopic, and self-serving to the bone. Allow me to offer a handful of alternative epitaphs for Schwartz’s tenure, still in senryu format:
once upon a time / this company was money / bye-bye you suckers
golden parachute / drifts over palo alto / kiss your job good-bye
dot-com era cash / could not hold off the penguins / now larry owns us
we made cool shit once / spent a decade jacking off / so long, solaris
if you invested / cash in sun microsystems / you were a sucker
company called sun / build the goddamn internet / now long forgotten
datacenters full / of ultra enterprises / now gathering dust
Feel free to add your own.
Crossposted from: blahg.blank.org