Ballmer and McNealy Smiling Together

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 15, 2005 @04:21AM from the will-wonders-never-cease dept.

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.'"

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I find it ironic by ugen · 2005-05-15 04:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

I find it ironic that Sun has a huge photographs of two CEO's looking mighty friendly on it's main page. This is certainly the first time I see something purporting to be major corporation to devote its entire main web page (read - web presense) to the image of a head of more successful rival and related news.

On the other hand, there is no mention of this on www.microsoft.com and searching for "sun" on their site brings up old legal documents related to Sun vs. Microsoft Java court battle.

I think (as others said in this thread before me) that this is a sign of desperate grasping at straws at Sun. Not only that, but such obvious signs of struggling to float will add a lot more damage to Sun's already pretty bleak image and future.