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Posted by timothy on from the such-childish-behavior dept.

windows bios world writes: "As this article states, 'There was little love from the leaders of the Java movement toward Microsoft's new framework for creating Web services, but there were signs of accommodation among some at the conference.' One of the most popular booth-trinkets was a button with a slash through it that said .NOT. A video shown at the first keynote depicted the Java Smart Car driving circles around a Bill Gates look-alike. The back of Bill's T-shirt, of course, was emblazoned with a J-flat logo instead of J-sharp."

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  1. Re:Always nice to see by spongman · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I agree. When was the last time you saw Bill Gates stand up in front of an audience (microsoft company meetings aside) and say that McNealy or Ellison and their companies are a bunch of mindless jerks that'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes (or some other childish insult).

    The funny thing is that it's not Microsoft that's killing Sun in the marketplace right now, it's open source projects like *BSD and Linux (with a little help from IBM).

    But it just wouldn't be fashionable for McNealy to admit that they're losing money to free software (which they are), that's something that only big-bad-bill (or maybe ballmer - he's a litle bigger) would say. On the other hand it's much more acceptable to point the ($1e9) finger of blame at Microsoft. Hey, everyone's doing it!

    Does he seriously thing that if Microsoft disappeared off the face of the planet that everyone would suddenly buy Sun? Yeah right. You could either double your cost on hardware/software by going from Microsoft to Sun/Oracle/iPlanet or do it for free. Sure you may have a slightly higher TCO with open source, but have you seen what an Oracle DBA charges (I mean... Oracle's just sooo easy to use :-} )?