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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: technologiste who wrote (50653)7/24/2002 6:37:56 AM
From: QwikSand   of 64865
 
That Salon article is just a lot of transparent gibberish.
It puts nothing "to rest" whatever.

Who is this guy to "decode" what McNealy says and tell investors what they should read into his words? I take McNealy's words at face value. When a bubble pops, and the rocks are turned over and some crooks are found (a small percentage of the total business leaders in the country, but some of them running very big shops), the frantic public goes into "don't just stand there, do something" mode. And how are the politicians going to respond? Morph into honest men overnight and actually fix problems? Admit they had a hand in keeping the whole bubble alive in the first place? Do something to jeopardize their soft money?

Of course not. They're going to grandstand and create heat without light. Hold some committee meetings, make some speeches, and tell everybody to go back and look at their books again to make absolutely, positively sure they weren't lying? Self parody. McNealy expressed reluctance, not to attest that his company's management is honest (which he has alredy done), but rather to waste time on meaningless government fetch-a-rock antics when he's got his hands full with a company in trouble in a shitty economy. It couldn't get any more obvious.

And as far as the rest of his crap about hardware/software solutions not working and the CEO not knowing and not caring about it, that's such hoary BS it's not even worth a response.

--QS
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