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Sun's Scott McNealy's Days are Numbered?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dibs-on-his-parking-spot dept.

alek writes "The Wall Street Journal writes 'Dusk could be near for Sun's McNealy' where they conjecture that the founder and and CEO of Sun Microsystems might be leaving soon. They suggest that the return of former CFO Michael Lehman and and a more active Board pressing for improved performance could result in COO Jonathan Schwartz taking over the top job. We've heard stories like this for years but Scott has hung in there for a long time - his response to the WSJ was 'That rumor is about 22 years old and still chuggin.'"

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  1. Re:Sun makes great hardware... by htd2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sun are unlikely to drop Solaris, it is and for the most part always has been their crown jewels.

    It would be difficult to find a OS that on a capability by capability approaches Solaris as a server platform. dtrace, SMF, zones, fireengine, great scalability, good enough HCL.

    However I can understand a Linux advocate wanting Sun to drop Solaris, it is the closest and best competitor to Linux.

    A large number of big commercial companies that were early adopters of Linux are now looking long and hard at Solaris x86. Its fast, cheaper than Linux, OpenSource if they want to tick that box and it runs on pretty much all the hardware that they deployed Linux on.

    Some have jumped allready.