I have been a software engineer and writing code in one role or another for over 20 years. I do not think any of the code I have written in any of the previous job can be used in the next ones.
I wonder how close the two companies following eachother's footstep that the code could be reused this way.
In my teams there are engineers from all across EU that are working with teams in Dublin. I have no idea what does this mean for those people because for them to be in the office in Berlin means nothing about co-location, and physical proximity to rest of their team.
Sun microsystem disappearing was/is a saddest case of a business failing for me. I wish they have done the correct marketing and partnership back in the time.
It wasn't marketing. Their products were just bad. Late model SPARC devices were trying to compete with Intel Coppermines that were literally twice as fast and three times cheaper. There was a brief moment where it looked like a pivot to software (via Java) might save them, but Microsoft killed that. Then very late they tried moving to x86 hardware themselves, but by then Linux had reached feature parity and passed Solaris in performance.
The final knife was the cloud. AWS was a huge paradigm shift for how one provisions hardware to Unixy software, and Amazon was a Linux shop and Solaris had nowhere to fit.
Ironically, Sun had Utility Computing for a buck a CPU hour way before anybody grasped the concept in the mid-2000s. When Oracle took over then they immediately killed this (became known as Sun Cloud) and had to start way late with Oracle Cloud. If Sun had kept going then they could have been where AWS eventually ended up. Oh well.
General Magic never really accomplished anything. Sun did. GM was more famous for people who worked there than anything else. Did they work on things early? Yeah, so did Ted Nelson. But did they ship product real people used? Not really. I don't think anyone outside Silicon Valley remembers them.
"Magic Link PIC-2000 was released in 1996." [1], 11 years before the iPhone. Sure, they didn't have the success of Sun, some could say that would make General Magic's case sadder: wasted potential hurts more than the inability to follow the future.
I have never been in Silicon Valley and I remember General Magic.
One of the most innovative companies absorbed by the company whose only innovation is finding new legal loopholes to screw more money out of their customers. Some fates are worse than disappearance.
At least they began iterating more quickly on Java, I remember as years went by and Sun's OOP purists were still saying that they were considering anonymous functions but just couldn't decide on the syntax.
That's not entirely fair to Oracle. Their original database had a big impact. It was only later that their business model switched to screwing their own customers as hard as possible.
Thank you! I don't have that data, but it's easily requestable thru the CA EDD website (see my linkedin post https://bit.ly/google-warn-data ). The hard part is cleaning and extracting the levels from the titles which varies considerably by company
I wonder how close the two companies following eachother's footstep that the code could be reused this way.