BusinessWeek/What Mankind Needs: Less Whining from Scott McNealy
DECEMBER 10, 2001
READERS REPORT
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott G. McNealy thinks mankind needs a break from Microsoft Corp. ("Face-off," Cover Story, Nov. 19). What mankind really needs is a break from McNealy's incessant whining. Many people and businesses complain about Microsoft's monopoly. None has bothered to offer a superior product. Instead, they have used the government as a strategic weapon to cover their inability to develop something better. Microsoft may have a monopoly with Windows and Office, but it hasn't come close to the same level of domination on the Web. If it had, America Online Inc. wouldn't still be around.
Technology writers from many publications have pointed out many flaws, weak areas, poor designs, and glitches in Microsoft products. What does it say about the rest of the software industry that Microsoft was able to achieve a monopoly with such imperfect products? Innovation won't happen just because the government suppresses Microsoft.
William A. Kirsten
Gaylord, Mich.
We have been reading Scott McNealy's "trash talk" for years. I would suggest he start concentrating on his own company's failings.
W. Donald Sally
Lake Forest, Ill.
If McNealy could just hold on for a few years, perhaps he could find another Administration like that of Bill Clinton. He could again donate heavily to the Democratic Party and again get them to shackle his competition.
Come on McNealy: Suck it up, and compete like a big boy!
Joe R. Donathan
Centennial, Colo.
Scott McNealy's outlandish attacks on Bill Gates and Microsoft, and his sophomoric humor, make one wonder why Sun Microsystems stockholders put up with this overgrown child.
Norman Cohen
Potomac, Md.
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