[vladak]

I (re)found a small brochure at work that contains the company mission statement with rationale from Scott McNealy. This was long time after Sun was acquired, however I found it interesting enough to retype it:

https://gist.github.com/vladak/c0abb6856d7902291f760be467b24...

I've never had the capacity to think deeply about what is within, however I do remember the days around 2007 or so when it seemed to me that there was not a week where some new exciting technology (software or hardware) was not being released. For me as a freshman this was impressive.

[mgkimsal]

I think that's more to do with you being a freshman and being more easily impressed. Others can say the same thing about 1997, or 2017, from a freshman's point of view. Much of the tech stuff released in 2007 was hype, much as it is today, but you don't usually know what's hype vs what is substantive until years year.