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Most Sun Employees Own Macs
An anonymous user writes, "Most Sun Microsystems employees use Apple when they're not at work. This leaves Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice-president of Sun's software group, hinting at a Sun/Apple partnership." This comes on the heels of Pat Gelsinger, senior VP and chief technology officer of Intel, claiming Apple makes the wrong decisions about CPUs. So it figures Sun, who Intel likely thinks wouldn't know a good processor if it came up and -- um, processed something, would like Macs.
I just wannted to be the first to say it on this thread. ;-)
Does this mean we're looking forward to a new brand of "Dried Apple" computers!?!!?
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...ok that was a really really bad joke, fortunatly this is slashdot so it's sure to get modded up. PS Can you find the misspelling?
Apparently Intel follows an all-to-common business model, which has been scientifically proven to inevitably lead to cannibalism:
Sun Apple... SunApple... Snapple?
Well it is a different industry.
No, truth is that there's a policy that disallows connecting Windows machines to the Sun network from home.
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Feeew......Shun.....Ha!
Does it come complete with a silly dance?
(Stupid DBZ reference, back to your normal programming.)
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
And about 50% of those posts we're bashing Microsoft. So it's kind of a slashdot friendly place
To quote Scott Adams on this:
"Analysis comes from 2 words:
-Anal
and
-Isis which is a latin word meaning 'to pull numbers from' "
Or something like that... I don't have the book near me. (I'm working right now... )
I live in Soviet Canuckistan you insensitive clod!
I can't find her. In fact, I haven't seen her in weeks. If you do find her, tell her I said "Hi."
If you look into it, you'll just find sun blaming apple and apple blaming sun.
So what you're saying is that they skipped the "being in bed together" part and went straight to marriage.
I've got Mac OS/X running on my Commodore C64 now. I is really k00l. Since it is Commodore hardware, I can eject the disk by flipping a lever instead of jamming a bent paperclip in a hole like on the Mac.
And, when I run regular C-64 software on the thing, I have about 50 times as many software titles as are available for mac os/x.
You haven't lived until you have heard Macintosh Ensoniq outputting MIDI files as Commdore "Drivemusic" gronk'n'.groan sound.
Except you all have jobs, and probably don't live in your mothers' basements...
/*- Mohammed -*/
After 12 years of supporting myself, and a family - I am more than eager to return to mom's basement. It wasn't such a bad place after all...
What if you sat at a Mac all day...
;)
Would you crave the excitement of configuring a sun box or some obscure linux distribution?
"Funny, the Sun-internal Macintosh users mailing list is very active often with more than 100 posts per day."
That doesn't say a whole lot. Ever heard a Mac fanatic ramble?
"Derp de derp."
No merger, but Sun employees are looking towards the future and want to be familiar with Mac OS X when they apply for jobs at Apple. They would prefer to stay in the Unix world than have to do Windows. :-)
I guess if you don't have a Mac at home you can expect your pink slip tommorow.
I used to sit behind a mac all day as a sys admin. Chatted a lot, drank way too much coffee and played games most of the time. I'd go home and do something else on and odd occasion tinker with my mac for a bit.
Then I made the mistake of taking a job with PCs which paid more money. One of my home macs now lives on my work desk and is the only thing there keeping me sane. There's been talk about disallowing me use of my own machine at work. If this actually happens I'll think i'll start looking for another job.
Incidentally I do have an Ultra Sparc 30 at home also, which if I have the urge to tinker with something gets switched on. Mostly though it along with the PCs at work serves to remind me why I'll never buy anything that isn't at least as good as an Apple.
Don't blame me - this
Sorry to burst your bubble but I started the quad processor G5 rumor many months ago! I'm going to go hang myself now.
I'll take the documentation, you keep the community.