Re: [MLUG] Sun, Microsoft Pact Viewed As 'Unholy Alliance' AgainstLinux, IBM

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I wonder if McNealy is feeling like Stalin in the summer of 1939?
Pact...Unholy Alliance...made me think.
	Cheers,
	Dave


On Friday 02 April 2004 10:24 pm, Mike Miller wrote:
> Sun, Microsoft Pact Viewed As 'Unholy Alliance' Against Linux, IBM
>
> full text:
> http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=49141
>
> quote:
>
> "The deal is an unholy alliance that spells the end of Sun Microsystems as
> we know it. This move makes Sun the Apple Computer of the Unix world.
> Apparently, McNealy thinks the enemy of his enemy--Linux--is his friend.
> They couldn't possibly be more wrong," said Ron Herardian, CEO of Global
> System Services, Mountain View, Calif. "It's just an unbelievable disaster
> for the industry. This won't stop Linux; it just puts Sun on the losing
> side of the battle line."
>
>
>
> Aargh.  I guess I thought Sun was on its way out.  Now I think they've
> basically been taken over by MS.
>
> Viva IBM!  Viva Linux!
>
> Mike M.
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