Sun's first customer for JavaStation? Sun!

Sun announced today that they made their first large-scale sale for the JavaStation: themselves. No, I'm not making this up: Sun will install 3,000 JavaStations throughout their own company. Using one's own product is known in the industry as "eating

Paul Thurrott

February 13, 1997

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Sun announced today that they made their first large-scale sale for the JavaStation: themselves. No, I'm not making this up: Sun will install 3,000 JavaStations throughout their own company.

Using one's own product is known in the industry as "eating your own dog food," and it's generally a good idea to do so. Announcing a rollout like this to the press, however, and making it sound like a sale is known in the industry as "lame."

Sorry, but Sun gets the dubious achievement of the week award for this one

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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