Thoughts his candid admissions on missing the Intel CPU boat were interesting too:
"If we had just grabbed the Intel Pentium chip and done a one-way and two-way pizza box with Solaris on it, Linux never would have happened. And we would have hit that whole next wave that was post-2000 and we would have had all the little startups. Google today would be running on Solaris if we hadn't messed that one up. That's the one big mulligan," McNealy said. Not sure I completely buy "Linux never woulda happened" but I definitely think would still be alive and well if they had embraced x86 On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:07 AM, SchemaCzar <[email protected]>wrote: > "If we had bought Apple, there wouldn't have been iPods or iPads ... > I'd have screwed that up." > > Responsibly, he doesn't say "Sun" or "we" would have screwed that up - > he speaks as one personally responsible. I always thought he seemed a > stand-up guy. > > > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/How-Apple-Dodged-a-Sun-Buyout-Former-CEOs-McNealy-Zander-Tell-All-251679/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
