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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: alydar who wrote (48655)	4/30/2002 5:02:51 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

"Sun recently held a meeting..." They also attended a meeting where Zander apparently got roasted. --- The evening started badly, and got steadily worse. "Whaddaya, mean, we're the next SGI?" said Zander in response to a caustic introduction from a Lynch druid. "Hey. I've put something in his food. You wait 'til he goes to the bathroom!" replied Ed. Zander had prepared a self-deprecating presentation, which - and we précis this loosely - amounts to "we're all fucked". What he actually said was, "it's tough to sell stuff out there, and even tougher to make money." And he had figures to back it up - Sun was flat, and the competition was stiffing. Which is actually true. Zander ran through presentations acknowledging weak areas - storage and iPlanet branding - and focused on Sun's big reorganization of its field sales. When he finished, the trouble began. "When are you quitting?" was the first question. "Your contract's up in June, are you following others out of the organization?" was the second. "Hey, I don't know what Scott's been saying - but any more questions about my life and I'm outta here," said Zander, after an excruciating five minutes, that seemed like hours to us. --- theregister.co.uk