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The Comedy of Scott McNealy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-laugh-at dept.

Rob writes "News that Sun co-founder and long-serving CEO, Scott McNealy is stepping aside, heaps a load of pressure on incoming CEO Jonathan Schwartz - he will have to get working on his anti-Microsoft gags quick-sharp. Aside from Sun's strategy and his execution of it, McNealy's tenure as CEO will be remembered for his constant Microsoft sniping. CBR remembers some of his favourite quotes."

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  1. So, now that he's gone... by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...what will happen to OpenOffice and, oh, Java?

    While I suspect that Sun will likely make everything run as usual for at least a little while, at least we knew that with Management's full attention on calling Microsoft bad names, it at least insured that they wouldn't get any bright ideas ab't increasing sagging revenue by screwing with Java and/or all versions of OO.

    /P

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    1. Re:So, now that he's gone... by oscartheduck · · Score: 4, Interesting

      A high up Sun representative was interviewed on LugRadio a few months back (I'm pretty sure it's this episode but I'm not one hundred percent certain) in which he categorically stated that everything Sun owns software-wise will be open sourced eventually, including Java.

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  2. The real meaning of the penguin suit by Nooface · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At the press conference where he wore the penguin suit, Scott took off the head to give his speech, and an aide rushed up to grab it and take it offstage. But Scott insisted that the head be left perched up on top of one of the props behind him. "I kind of like the way it looks up there", he said dreamily, almost as if it were on a pike.

    It was pretty clear then that he really hadn't come to terms with Linux yet, almost as awkard as his famous "Mo-Mo-(slap)-Motif" moment years earlier.

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  3. No Future in Java and Sun's Technology by MOBE2001 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it at least insured that they wouldn't get any bright ideas ab't increasing sagging revenue by screwing with Java and/or all versions of OO.

    There is no money in Java and not much future in Sun's other technologies. I posted this elseswere yesterday but it bears repeating. My advice to Schwartz is the following. Don't try to beat either Linux or Microsoft at their games. You will lose. I suggest instead that you do something that will take the rest of the industry completely by surprise. Invest your remaining resources and passion into the next big thing, the one thing that will solve the nastiest problem in the computer industry today: unreliability. Put all your money in non-algorithmic, signal-based, synchronous software. It will revolutionize both the hardware and the software industry and usher in the most dramatic change in computing since the days of Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace. Don't say you weren't warned. ahahaha...

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  4. Given that Schwartz was head of a tiny startup.... by rthille · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That got bought by Sun awhile ago, I'd hope that he remembers something about innovating. I'd also like to think that he remembers the tech that Sun bought when they bought 'his' company and burried. Probably not too relevant now, but the NeXTStep apps were best of breed at the time, and ran well on 25MHz machines. Perhaps Java could take some direction?

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  5. I have to question some of Sun's spending by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am posting this as AC for obvious reasons. At work at Dell at our corporate headquarters. Several months ago, there was a plane circling our buildings all day pulling a banner that was announcing to us that Sun had released new servers. I don't know what it cost to create the banner and then have some guy fly around with it all day, but I'm pretty sure that advertising their product to us was not a good use of capitol. In fact, it felt kind of like a childish "nyah nyah nyah" sort of thing. All in all, I found it very strange, and I found myself glad that I wasn't a Sun shareholder.