[LINK] no more sun.com

[Scott Howard]

The blog post that triggered the press regarding it being removed was
incorrect, and was retracted a few days later.

https://blogs.oracle.com/OTNGarage/entry/sun_com_will_disappear_after

Unfortunately just yet another case of various "press" (and it was far more
than just engadget) taking a single blog post from an employee of a company
as gospel.

  Scott


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>
> wrote:
> >"Yes, after 25 years of
> > answering the call of sun.com, the company that no longer is will be
> > letting go of its former domain name as well. The site has already
> > been redirecting users to Oracle for quite a while, but come June
> > 1st, it'll be like the Sun we knew had never even risen."
> >
> http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/16/sun-com-the-twelfth-oldest-domain-on-the-internet-will-be-deco/
>
> ... and two years later, Sun.com is still alive.
>
> Guess someone figured out how much traffic was coming from
> java.sun.com redirectors, and how many things would break of they
> choose to shut down the domain name.
>
> ... and it also proves that you can´t trust engadget. :-P
>
> FC
>
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