I'm reluctant to call anyone out. I liked Sun a lot, as well as the people I've encountered who worked there. There was a thread between a couple of ex-Sun guys here on hn years ago - I can't find it right now - which made me feel there was a humorous and very human pattern in Sun postmortem comments: "man, that other team really killed Sun, we were doomed after that thing they did." I was pretty curious what the people on that other team (the SPARC microprocessor designers, in the case of that comment thread) might have said in their own defense, where they might have spread some of the blame, and so on.

(perhaps it doesn't do your rather full blog post justice to compare it to something considerably less complete like a comment thread)

> Ultimately, the leadership of the company needs to bear the responsibility for the outcome

I emphatically agree. Maybe it goes without saying but with Sun, multiple generations of leadership, I think.