James Gosling, father of Java, posted a picture on his blog, which should represent the mood of many technical people:
By the way, he also wrote a sentence: So long, old friend...
Goodbye, Sun!
This was a great company that once created many gods.
This hero is a great company.
This is a great company that has proposed many years ago that the network is a grand vision of computer.
[Outstanding scientists and engineers who work at Sun Company]
Bill Joy (father of BSD and VI)
Ivan Sutherland (Turing Award winner)
Bryan cantrill (father of dtrace)
Steve Bourne (father of Bourne shell)
Jeff bonwick (father of ZFS)
Joshua BLOCH (godfather of Java)
Guy L. Steele, Jr. (father of Scheme)
James Duncan David son (father of Tomcat)
Whitfield Diffie (father of Public Key Algorithm)
Craig Mcclanahan (father of struts)
Ian Murdock (father of Debian)
Jakob Nielsen (authoritative availability)
Radia Perlman (mother of the Internet)
Marc Tremblay (ultrasparc processor)
Marc Fleury (father of JBoss)
Tim Bray (XML)
Peter norvig (Google R & D Director)
John Ousterhout (father of TCL)
[Outstanding entrepreneurs who have worked in Sun Company]
Eric Schmidt (Google, LEX)
Andy Bechtolsheim (founder of sun, first investor of Google)
Zhuang Sihao (BEA)
Chris malachowsky (NVIDIA)