Funny Netscape - Sun Microsystems Recruitment Video

I work for Sun Microsystems, and I am looking to hire 2 interns. I first showed this video to the new Sun Microsystems hires, in the year 2000. The spirit of the video is still relevant today, giving the viewer an insight into the Sun Microsystem culture. The video is also instructive in that it includes Jim Barksdale's 3 snake rules.

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• Netscape
• Sun
• Microsystems
• Recruitment
• intern
• jobs
• funny

[thedeadbaby]

Sun is f ucking dead. Oracle bought out this piece of shit company and will run it into the ground. A Recent Oracle vice president has stated the following: "We need to get the younger generation interested and excited [about Java] just like I was... I would like to see people with piercings doing Java programming," -Jeet Kaul Vice President of client software at Oracle. This sounds a lot like the people who wanted schools to teach f uckign cobol at one point in time.

[tigerfarm]

@thedeadbaby

not matter what you are learning in school, in a few years, five to ten, some one from the younger generation, in the next cycle of computer technologies, is going to sing the same song your singing now. What goes around, comes around. I have heard it all before, Pascal, C, C++, Java, Python, Flash, HTML, PHP, Perl, Web 2.0, HTML 5, around and around we go. My motto, whatever technology I can make the most money from and get travel expenses to teach, is the best technology.

[clavettr]

1. If you see a snake, kill it.

2. Don't play with dead snakes.

3. All opportunities start looking like snakes.

So... If you see an opportunity kill it quickly and never speak of it again.

Wow, am I the only one, or is this a stupid analogy?

[tigerfarm]

OK, I admit there was beer at the events when Jim Barksdale told us the 3 rules of snakes, and at the time it made sense. However, I think the 1st rule is for technical people, the 3rd rule is for marketing.

[thedeadbaby]

Our computer science departments in California universities are being RUINED by java. They really should just get rid of this dumb f ucking language which is overly complex and USELESS. It's no secret that it's been in decline due to it's uselessness and unproductivity. Sun has contributed more harm to society than good. Forget the fu cking skiing, guitar playing, site seeing bullshit in this vid. Sun is f ucking useless.

[aCedarsTest]

Yes. He probably made up this (confirmed) memo that was all over slashdot and everywhere else on the internet in 2003. Yea. He could make all that up. He can make up a fictional employee, Julian S. Taylor, who in fact worked at Sun and has a linkedin profile and wrote the memo. yea. it was all made up. Please prove this guy wrong man.

[alex9044]

Netscape you're has nothing in common with Netscape mentioned in this ad.

[alex9044]

And you just made it up, right? I agree that Java was overhyped and Sun was dead about 15 years ago. But nobody as Sun would use Python for web projects.

[tigerfarm]

I'm still here, still teaching what I think is right, whether it is with or without Sun technology.

[icfnord]

LOL. Of course Java sucks that's why its installed on 2 billion devices worldwide and is the most popular programming platform of all time