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Most Sun Employees Own Macs

Posted by pudge on from the give-all-apple-users-suns-and-we'll-call-it-even dept.

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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  1. Sun Partnership? by val1s · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are they so convinced that OS X is the future that they are giving up on Solaris and Licensing OS X? :)

    1. Re:Sun Partnership? by 0x0d0a · · Score: 0, Troll

      I'd suspect it's just because Solaris for x86 really sucks and most folks probably don't want to buy a SPARC for home use.

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