Andy,
I agree with what you and Cheryl are saying, but even if I forget for a bit that I hold shares of SUNW, I find the new disquieting, especially when taken in the context of the Gov't suit against MSFT. I'd like to see Little Red Riding Hood (HWP) put on the stand and questioned about how they decided to get involved developing a competing Java language with The Big Bad Wolf (MSFT).
Here's a news item on testimony by in INTC executive. I'm quoting the section where he mention SUNW:
dailynews.yahoo.com
Tuesday November 10 1:31 AM ET
_Witness Says Gates Threatened Intel_
>Maritz also talked about a strategy to ''embrace, extend and extinguish'' the competition, McGeady said.
>The ultimate idea, said McGeady, was that software developers would follow Microsoft's lead so its
>Web browser would become dominant and incompatible with Netscape's.
>McGeady said the same strategy was used against Sun. Sun had developed the Java software
>language. The idea was that developers could write programs once in Java, which would sit on all
>kinds of different operating systems. That meant it would not matter whether Windows or some
>other operating system was running underneath the Java.
>So Microsoft, fearing a threat, decided to make its Java incompatible with that of Sun, McGeady
>said. Sun has sued Microsoft in San Jose, Calif., alleging it violated a contract on that issue.
Lynn
P.S. Sorry, people; I tried to edit in the '>' marks correctly but am giving up after three attempts--just can't get the line length cut at the right places this morning for some reason. |
