Sun’s McNealy in Canada
p2pnet.net News:- Sun CEO takes a swing at, well, everything
That’s the intriguing headline in an IT World Canada story describing how Sun Microsystems chairman and ceo Scott McNealy, "defended his company’s open source track record in an occasionally raucous meeting with members of the Canadian press last week".
He "bristled at the suggestion that Sun was pressured into making its latest version of the Solaris operating system (OS) available to open source developers".
"Pressure? It fascinates me how people think the world operates, that I’m some sort of politician running for office," he’s quoted as saying.
He said there are absolute legal issues, "pointing out that Sun had to rid the OS of some proprietary code before open sourcing it".
He also had a go at IBM over high OS operating costs, saying Sun could offer Solaris 10 at US$1 per CPU, per hour states the report, adding:
"McNealy said the ASP Solaris model is temporary, merely a way to ‘irritate the market’ in the hopes of convincing service providers like Bell Canada and Telus Corp. to create their own N1 data centres and serve up Solaris containers. So far not one Canadian service provider has signed on."
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new things – Sun CEO takes a swing at, well, everything, IT World Canada, November 9, 2004
November 10th, 2004 at 6:45 pm
McNealy is a braying moron…hopefully Sun dies off soon and McNealy with them…gawd he’s a blight on FOSS with his self-serving OS tripe he bleats out. He has no interest in the OS community except for what he can leverage and exploit for his/Sun’s own interest.
TT