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From: cocot@osc.versant.com (Doctor COCOT)
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
Subject: [surfpunk-0003] UNIX: The ever-quotable Scott McNealy
Keywords: surfpunk
Scott McNealy is the chairman of Sun Microsystems, which has usually
been considered, at least by the UNIX hackers, to be the leader in
UNIX workstations for at least the last five years, perhaps ten.
Keith is a fan of his ability to not hold back from saying what he
thinks of his competitors.
-- Dr Cocot
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From: keith@cc.gatech.edu (Keith Edwards)
Subject: The ever-quotable Scott McNealy
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 17:08:30 EST
Message-Id: <9212042208.AA21611@picasso.cc.gatech.edu>
Is anyone compiling a list of famous Scott McNealy quotes?
>From the December 1992 issue of UnixWorld:
BUDDIES? NOT!
For this month's cover, we had hoped to feature a photograph of
Next Chairman Steve Jobs and Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman
Scott McNealy, with their arms draped around each others'
shoulders. The point? To symbolize that 1992 was a year in
which at least some of the UNIX hostilities were patched up.
(McNealy once said at a press conference: "I'd rather have
needles stuck in my eyes than to have Nextstep run on Sun
workstations.") Sadly, the UNIX industry hasn't yet reached
love-fest status. While Jobs eagerly agreed to appear in the
photograph, McNealy turned us down, saying through a Sun
spokesperson: "I'd be happy to pose with my arm around [NCR
CEO] Gil Williamson or [Hewlett-Packard CEO] Lew Platt or
someone who has a real company that ships real UNIX."
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