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To: Byron Xiao who wrote (81385)	11/19/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: George A. Roberts	Respond to of 176387

>>>He did not start SUNW, like Bill Gates did. If he started SUNW and held 20% of its stocks like Bill, he would've been a 5B man. That's a given. >>> I may be mistaken but I believe that Scott Mcnealy did in fact "co found" Sun Microsystems. Scott is an extremely wealthy man, comparing anyone to Gates in terms of money is beyond the point. I am a new Dell shareholder ( owned Dell years ago and sold it as a trade, that shows you how smart I was -:) ) ! The java win for Sunw is important but to me Scott Mcnealy and Larry Ellison of Oracle have both spent way too much of their energies being Gates obsessed ,,,both Larry and Scott are powerful players in tech and have nothing to be jealous of, nobody has the impact Microsoft and in turn Gates has on the market place and none have been quite as fortuitous as has Billy boy and Co. Mike Dell is fast joining them as a power player if he is not already considered one !!!! George

To: Byron Xiao who wrote (81385)	11/19/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Byron - You're in the Church of Dell, so expect a little heat for suggesting that any other computer vendor won't get it's A$$ kicked... But a couple of corrections. I was heavily invested in SUNW at one point, and knew Scott and some of the other Sun players a little, but that was maybe 10 years ago. I still see some of them but have not seen Scott in a long time. But he does indeed manage a 26B company SUNW is more like $10B in revenue, or were you talking about something else like market cap? He did not start SUNW, like Bill Gates did. Scott, Bill Joy and a few others were certainly the founding fathers. None of those guys have the money that Gates and Dell have because they cashed out early to mezzanine and early venture funding. Scott in particular wanted to get rich NOW not later. Several of the other early players left over this very issue - they thought that waiting a little longer for the silicon valley high life was preferable to diluting their ownership by a factor of 10. If Scott and others had not made that choice they would be billionaires today.