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Technology Stocks : Will SUNW bring down MSFT?
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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (833)11/12/1997 5:41:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (2) of 878
 
Sun rolls out Java for Internet appliances www5.zdnet.com

That McNealy is indeed a wiseacre:

"Microsoft is not a monopoly," Sun Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy told a gathering of press and analysts at Sun's campus in Menlo Park, Calif. "You do have a choice. There is an alternative. Microsoft is an alternative to us. . . . I'd like you to talk about the Sun monopoly. We all know that a rational consumer in the face of a monopoly will chose the monopoly. So we admit it, we're a monopoly. Microsoft is an alternative; they are a challenger, and they may someday knock us off our pedestal."

What a guy. I guess this story speaks to the "what about Windows98" question, though there's not much detail here.

Cheers, Dan.

P.S. As to the "In the future, we are all Microsoft" line from the Forrester Research article, that was just a joke, I took the line out of context. Presumably, the interpretation was that the "web" would replace Microsoft as a software "monopoly", I wouldn't push the point too far though.
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