Why Sun Microsystems Failed: An Offer That Expired at 6 p.m.

What happened to Sun Microsystems, the company behind Java, and why did it fail? In 2000 its chairman wrote that the greatest challenge might be keeping up with demand; in 2009 Sun agreed to sell itself to Oracle. Sun's own filings, internal memos and its founders' own words show what happened in between. 0:00 The deadline 1:26 Stanford, 1979–1984 5:36 The network is the computer, 1984–1989 9:35 The pizza box, 1989–1995 13:22 Java, 1995–1999 17:31 The dot in dot-com, 1999–2002 21:12 Giving it away, 2002–2008 26:48 The countdown, 2008–2009 31:44 Ending: the network