sun micro needs to do more actually and will even if market forces FORCE this on them
hey is this the end of his DENIAL stage...finally?
"'ll tell you my four mistakes. Hiring too many people—by the way, my big mistake was not having the right people who did the right things. But I let hiring happen. Two, I let the landlords take a huge big bag of cash out of this company. We're still paying leases. We went from 16 million to 10 million square feet. I can deal with five. The third thing is we lost touch with the customer and quality products. We just weren't focused, so we got a little bit of a hangover. But the customer just said "Hey, your stuff doesn't work" and I got no orders to fill. We fixed that. We fixed that over the last three or four years, and now we're back to where we were pre-bubble, in terms of quality.
The fourth thing is I screwed up the x86 thing. I listened a little bit to the folks who said "Sparc can do everything." It can't. It can do some things that x86 can't do, and maybe won't be able to do them for a long, long time, with scalability up and all the rest of it. But we said, "We'll take care of the x86 space by doing it software-only." My stupid logic was that by doing software-only, IBM, HP, and Dell would be more willing to OEM it, because we weren't trying to take the hardware dollars from them. Well, because Microsoft doesn't do hardware, it was okay to resell, and then support Microsoft." |
