McNealy: Microsoft needs Sun to beat IBM and Red Hat

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Further evidence that McNealy needs to get his gold watch.
I'm trying to remember the last time he had it right about
technology. Going over to the dark side like this is the last
straw.

Whatever pleasantries once existed between Sun Microsystems and Red Hat have vanished. This won't come as a shock to many of you. The companies have been jawing in the press for some time. The extent, however, of Sun's loathing for Red Hat is more profound than many imagine, with Sun's CEO Scott McNealy largely confirming a shared attack with Microsoft against the Linux vendor.

McNealy speaking here yesterday at a Northwestern University event on entrepreneurship let the anti-Red Hat venom spurt. The exec rightly presented Red Hat as a serious threat and said Sun has no ill feelings about attacking an open source vendor. This message resonated in a room filled with money-hungry MBAs.

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[MazeRat7]

1. He has either lost his mind or been assimilated....

That is just wrong. Why would he do that ? My guess is now that the intel architecture has grown in power, they are loosing share of their proprietary hardware sales to companies like Dell running RH.

I agree, he needs his watch now and a cabana boy at the beach.....

MZr7