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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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