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From: QwikSand	5/1/2006 11:19:30 AM
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yahoo.businessweek.com --QS No one on Wall Street shed tears when Scott G. McNealy announced he was stepping down as CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW ) on Apr. 24. The stock zoomed 8%, to its highest level in more than a year. McNealy's hand-picked replacement, Jonathan Schwartz, offered admiring comments. Otherwise, few tributes were made to one of tech's most influential and charismatic characters -- just lots of talk about Sun's bloated costs and weak server sales. That's unfortunate. McNealy is the rare executive who shaped an era. He envisioned and set the tone for the Internet Economy, and his stubbornness -- and over-the-top showmanship -- cleared the way for some amazing accomplishments. The problem is, having helped built that world, McNealy never figured out how to thrive in it. . . .

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