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Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the everyone's-got-a-narrative dept.

gearystwatcher writes "Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy talks to The Reg on where things went wrong, and acquisition by Oracle: 'We probably got a little too aggressive near the end and probably open sourced too much and tried too hard to appease the community and tried too hard to share,' McNealy said. 'You gotta take care of your shareholders or you end up very vulnerable like we got. We were a wonderful acquisition — we got stolen for a song at the bottom of the Dow.'"

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  1. This'll be fun by AdmiralXyz · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm sure the Slashdot community will be more than happy to loudly tell Mr. McNealy exactly why he's wrong. Just don't forget who the CEO- with total knowledge of the company's inner workings and financial statements- is, and who the people trolling from their basement with no business/management experience whatsoever are.

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  2. Sun is a Very Bad Digital Citizen. Very Bad. by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sun should not be charging for their software.

    They can make their money on performances and T-Shirts.