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Sun's Linux Exec Departs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-news-in-sol-town dept.

HyperbolicParabaloid writes "The NY Times (free reg blah blah) has an article about the departure of Sun's no.2 exec, but also mentions that Stephen DeWitt, the vice president of an important business unit that leads Sun's efforts with the Linux operating system, quietly left Sun on Friday, the company confirmed today."" And the question is: How will this affect projects like OpenOffice release and the on-again, off-again McNealy Linux relationship.

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  1. well then there now by ozzimark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    well since he left, maybe they will get someone who will support star office development for windows and linux, we all know how much we loved those programs instead of having to use openoffice or the crappy ms office...

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  2. Tsk, tsk by theolein · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sarcstic you are!

  3. Re:Why would it affect the OpenOffice release? by nomadic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I worked at Sun I'd drop OpenOffice in a heartbeat.