In the past 5 years they've mostly been one of:
1) Hardware
2) Giant
3) Enterprisey
None of which are very applicable to the original question, which is about web software startups.
1) Hardware
2) Giant
3) Enterprisey
None of which are very applicable to the original question, which is about web software startups.
You must have read a different question than I did. The original post mentions "startups", not "web software startups". Many News.YC readers are building things that Sun would find interesting, so I think Sun's acquisition history is relevant to our interests here at News.YC.
DTrace continues to blow my mind.