Comment by ChuckMcM
1 year ago
One of my mentors was Steve K. at Sun who I consulted with about how badly Sun did changes. It really pissed me off that Sun wouldn't put NIS+ into SunOS because they were allegedly worried it would "reduce the incentive to migrate to Solaris."
I would say I was not particularly successful at being a 'change agent' there.
It's not just changing badly, but changing to the wrong thing.
They'd beaten AT&T in the Unix marketplace, then celebrated by getting in bed with them.