I don't usually throw out insults but in your case I am forced
to make an exception. You are simply an idiot. Your statement
that the MAC OS is obsolete is so wrong that it denies understanding
how anyone could be so dense.
I've met Scott McNealy on a number of occasions. He HATES!
Microsoft. He recently said,
"This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable,
so hard to use, so hard to configure...Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid
this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it
up and running and trying to figure out how to use it."
McNealy hates Microsoft so much he may buy Apple just to spite Bill Gates.
Ignoring the vitriol, Sun buying Apple makes good sense. A dynamic company
that understands the Net, the enterprise, and desktop customers could become
quite a competitor to the Microsoft/Intel installed base.
I use SPARC stations, INDIGOs, PCs, MACs, IBM6000s, and other computers
everyday. It would be a dream, a fantasy, for McNealy to offer
the MAC OS on every SUN. Don't you see it. The whole reason he was
ready to pay (an rumor is he still want's to) $3 Billion is to get his
hands on the most modern, user friendly, multi-media capable, internet
ready, True-plug and play operating system that currently exists. He
sees this marriage as the first real opportunity to break Microsofts
strangle hold on the personal computer industry and still keep his
primary business active.
I am not advising you to buy Apple, sell Sun, or any stock move. I just
want you to know just how wrong you are about the MAC operating system,
and that you need to think (at least a little) before you knock what
Apple could offer Sun (or Sony, Motorola, IBM, Oracle...).
Yours Truly,
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