Recent history: Apple/Sun merger

Rumor has it that Richard may have mentioned these words: To some, Suns are more boring than Apples... Personally, I'd much rather meet McNealy in person than Jobs. But where was Jobs during the Micro$haft hearings? McNealy was there every day - about the only person that was willing to stand toe-to-toe with Gates; even Jobs is afraid to do that. Let's turn the tables a second - who would you put money on if each were to strap on ice-hockey skates? Mine would be on McNealy... ;-) So... what if Jobs "vibrates"[1] on the presentation dais compared to McNealy? McNealy would definitely kick Job's bum in a lot of other areas... and IMHO, the only difference right now between Sun & Apple is Sun didn't "get lucky" with the iPod - which is the only thing that *finally* allowed Jobs to post a profit higher than Gil Amelio. Well, that, and Sun makes a much better server. They've been doing it a lot longer, so that shouldn't shock anyone. But this is neither here nor there, nor anywhere else for that matter. Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger [1] IMHO, I dislike watching Jobs give presentations - to me, he acts like a bipolar Chihuahua... -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate." SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein zmerch at 30below.com |