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.

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Does this mean...

[ProfessionalCookie]

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?

Gelsinger's vision for future technology?

[madcoder47]

Q. Does the word "profit" play in what technologies you push in Intel?

A. If technology can do it we will embrace it, even if it means eating our own children.

Apparently Intel follows an all-to-common business model, which has been scientifically proven to inevitably lead to cannibalism:

1. Eat children
2. ? (something about processors)
3. Profit!

Re:Oo! Oo! Apple and Sun are mergeing!!!

[ProfessionalCookie]

Sun Apple... SunApple... Snapple?

Well it is a different industry.

Re:Statement pulled out of someone's ass?

[Sepper]

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... )

Re:I'll believe it when I see it

[pavon]

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.

Re:Statement pulled out of someone's ass?

[valkraider]

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...

Re:This is no suprise.

[Polo]

What if you sat at a Mac all day...

Would you crave the excitement of configuring a sun box or some obscure linux distribution? ;)

No, Sun employees hoping for work

[AHumbleOpinion]

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. :-)

Re:This is no suprise.

[Senjaz]

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.