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Ballmer and McNealy Smiling Together
cahiha writes "Sun and Microsoft are pushing a single sign-on and identity management solution, and the Sun home page has a picture of McNealy and Ballmer smiling together. Yahoo has details on the conflict between the industry giants, and there is more information on the collaboration at the Sun press release page. The press release took place Friday morning." From the article: "The technology news, though, was overshadowed by the joint appearance of McNealy and Ballmer, who until April 2004 were bitter enemies. McNealy once referred to Microsoft's executive team of Ballmer and
Bill Gates as 'Beavis and Butthead.'"
The Four Horsemen have been sighted today in an undisclosed location...
The Crimson Dragon
....bend over and take it like a bitch!
Now if they can only cooperate and get their darn keyboards to have similar layouts! I mean seriously, who would have the caps lock key where shift is? Ridiculous.
Microsoft appears to be jumping too quickly getting between "good company" and "bad company" personalities, while Sun's "we're independent and answer to no-one" and "yeah, but we did get $2bn from our biggest competitor" vibrations are reaching breaking point.
It's a trick. Get an axe.
Steve doesn't do the Monkey dance.
Yeah, or the poison dart in Ballmer's. This makes me think back to seeing Reagan and Gorbachev on TV, shaking hands and appearing to agree on something important. Unnerving, and not a little creepy.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
or is Balmer starting to look more and more like Hannibal Lector?
Taking another cue from the upstart in Cupertino, Microsoft and Sun announced today that work is underway on a new vapor of Windows based on Solaris for high end workstations in scientific computing and multimedia production. It will have the familliar interface of Windows XP with a few snazzy extras, but the underpinnings will be made of Sun's industrial strength Solaris version of Unix. It will be available first on Sun branded Opteron workstations and servers.
The hardware platform, designed by Sun, will be the most advanced PC architecture yet. It will only support PCI-X or USB2 peripherals, and will repair itself. Scott McNealy says "We have actually trained [capuchin] monkeys who are administering our development servers right now. This drives down the TCO to the tune of nuts and berries in addition to the initial purchase cost."
The development environment for the platform is based on Dot Net, with a Sun licensed Java extension so that developers can write programs in Visual Basic, Java, or C# which will only run on the new environment. The new tools are being developed offshore in Hindi and Mandarin with english versions not due out for up to two years later.
The product is codenamed WinX (pronounced "Whence?"), and will be available at the same time Longhorn is released, probably later this year and will be much, much cooler than Apple's highly touted Tiger version of Mac OS X. Steve Jobs' reacted: "In the kitchen, Microsoft only knows how to make a shit sandwich, and they keep making bigger and bigger ones. Unfortunately, if we want to eat we all have to take a bite. I think they know that, and that's why I suggested Steve [Ballmer] reclaim the name 'Wince' from the handheld market. That's what it makes me want to do! He [Ballmer] laughed."
--- Nothing clever here: move along now...
Stallman: The dark side of the Source is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... free (as in beer and in freedom).
n00b: Is it possible to learn those powers?
Stallman: Not from a MSCE.
Maybe a quote from the OTHER "A. Smith" is more appropriate here...
Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.
Sorry to interrupt your wank, but why would Apple WANT to take over Java and Sun's enterprise servers? And how would Apple, with NO experience, succeed when Sun is getting their ass kicked?
Unlike shiny powerbooks, you can't sell application servers and midrange servers on metrosexual fanboy appeal.
Q. Who are the two ugliest CEOs in IT?
Almost seriously... they put a photo on the front page and they couldn't find a better one?
I won't even think about the ethical and technical side of things. We're obviously doomed.
Actually, Ballmer has his had FIRMLY gripping McNealy's nut sack. I smell a buyout soon...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
The only reason people work for companies is lack of imagination.
Of course, there's no shortage of lack of imagination.
Gee, that sounds like a Bushism!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
No, the big surprise is that McNealy is Microsoft's Sun.
"Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
Microsoft is notorious for standards incompatibility from OS to IE to Office Doc Formats. This announcement is about interoperability thru standards support in the Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture. I believe that the WS standards are the key to the next level of integration with IT. This not only translates to lower cost of development and ownership of codebases but also begins to provide the next evolution of identity management, a pink elephant in service application industry.
Well, one doesn't usually see two whole wankers in the same picture. However, the only reason that it's happening is that McNealy has way more to lose from GNU/Linux than MonkeyBoy and it's therefore an alliance of the enemies of Linux rather than any other bullshit they may be spewing.
Nothing to see here, except the dark forces lining up to fight the common enemy. They have no chance in the long term, though they can keep trying as hard as they want. The software model for Operating Systems as they know it is not sustainable. McNealy needs the OS to preserve his Unix datacenter customers applications and MonkeyBoy....never mind....same old story.
Hey, McNealy IS right!
Ball and Gates do remind me of Beavis and Buthead.
Ballmer: "Huh, we're like cool or something?"
Gates: "Yeah, we're cool, heih. Are you threatening me??"