Even Sun Microsystems Had Its Roots at Xerox PARC - NYTimes.com

Adding to the long list of things fumbled by Xerox

"Sun would go on to dominate the workstation computer industry and later servers until it fell on hard times after the dot-com collapse. Mr. Bechtolsheim’s acknowledgement of the PARC influence underscores the impact that the research center’s technology had on the computer industry.

The tales of Mr. Jobs’ visit and Mr. Simonyi’s departure to Microsoft are well known, but Mr. Bechtolsheim, who would go on to found a number of other companies including Granite Systems, Kealia Inc., and Arista Networks, and would who would become an early investor in Google, has not previously spoken about the role that being at PARC played in his early design work."

Even Sun Microsystems Had Its Roots at Xerox PARC - NYTimes.com