JEDIDIAH wrote: [...] > Sun's problem is being less able to sell overpriced hardware > for people trying to avoid running Windows in their datacenter.
>From http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/mb/JAVA ----- [AP, San Francisco Reuters 9928IU9] San Francisco, California::: Today, Sun Microsystems announced that Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President of the company, has taken a bath. It was reported that Schwartz [aka "Ponytail"] was on a non-bathing binge until the company's free downloads exceeded 3.5 billion. Schwartz stated "I'm sort of like Ghandi - you know - that guy that didn't eat anything until he got more money". Schwartz contined "I don't usually bathe a whole lot anyway, so I thought it would be a good gesture. I promised not to bathe until our lousy customers downloaded our free software exceeding 3.5 billion separate downloads" Inside sources reported that Schwartz took a bath last night, prompted by IBM's refusal to meet with him in person regarding the rumored leveraged takeover. An IBM representative who asked to remain anonymous stated "We couldn't even stand to be in the same room with the guy he stunk so bad. I don't think he's brushed his teeth since January either". He continued "We told him take a bath and we'll talk - but not until he cleaned up" Sources close to Schwartz claims he ordered management to simply manipulate the download numbers so he could save face. Later the manager was fired per policy. In an unrelated announcement, Sun announced today that they have given away 550 trillion free downloads since last Monday, and this will stimulate the core business model of Sun's free products. [[[[end of story:::APAPAP]]]]] ----- :-) regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
