On Nov 25, 7:15Â am, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know if people were transferable between Sun Labs and the > mainstream company. I found Sun Labs the coolest part of Sun albeit > any R&D is not going to be instantly profitable. There was the > understanding in Sun Labs that projects undertaken there might fail. > The current trends seems to be for the big players to do less and less > R&D as it is not a climate where risk taking is popular.
You don't think Google, Apple, and HP are taking big risks on Android, iOS and WebOS, respectively? You don't think there's serious R&D behind WebM, HTTP Live Streaming, touch UIs, Chrome, etc? Sometimes they don't pan out -- Google Wave for example -- but it's not for lack of trying. Oracle might not have an appetite for risk, but plenty of other "big players" sure do. Still, it's possible to go too far romanticizing R&D with no clear application… the ultimate goal is to develop successful products and services, and Sun clearly didn't do this well. Anyways, we've kind of lost the thread of the original "is Sony nuts to base a new consumer electronics device framework on GNUStep?" --Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
