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McNealy: MS Must Be Scrutinised
News SUNW) CEO Scott McNealy asked for strong enforcement of existing antitrust laws to reign in Microsoft Corp.during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning. McNealy said he won't ask for more regulation, but he warned that...
[March 3, 1998, 15:01]
McNealy, Ellison Call For Microsoft Bust-up
News Appearing separately in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems stumped on behalf of stiff remedies against the software giant. Meanwhile in a Comdex keynote, McNealy also took aim at the Redmond giant.
[November 18, 1999, 8:42]
McNealy Makes Pact With His Devil
News With Friday's sweeping settlement, Sun's Scott McNealy now finds himself in an unlikely alliance with his greatest foe: Microsoft. When Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates made the debut of a new strategy in 1998, McNealy quipped: "Microsoft is now...
[April 5, 2004, 9:20]
McNealy 'thrilled' Sun's Unix Licence Is Safe
News Responding to a question from silicon.com this week, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy said: "I don’t want to speculate [on the outcome of the lawsuit] but I'm thrilled to death SCO can’t revoke our Unix licence.
[July 31, 2003, 8:47]
McNealy Shoots Down Sun Buyout Rumours
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy is pouring cold water on a rumour that suggested an investment firm planned a leveraged buyout of the server and software company, calling it "unsubstantiated" and part of a scheme to profit from a stock price boost.
[April 29, 2005, 17:10]
McNealy Touts N1, Warns Against Microsoft
News Sun Microsystems will need to seek a little help from its friends to make its ambitious N1 plan succeed, chief executive Scott McNealy said on Monday. Storage systems from EMC, username-password databases from Novell, and application servers from...
[November 19, 2002, 7:43]
McNealy Touts Sun-Linux 'purple Box' Desktops
News Sun Microsystems will get into the PC business next year, selling Linux-based desktops that will cost less than half to own and operate than comparable systems running Windows, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy said on Wednesday.
[September 20, 2002, 8:03]
McNealy: It's .Net Against Mankind
News Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy was in fine fighting form as he traveled through Asia this week, uttering scathing sound bites about rival Microsoft. In Beijing on Monday, McNealy poured scorn on the software giant's scheme to reveal...
[March 19, 2003, 14:44]
McNealy: Controversy Makes Money
News Being controversial helps Sun Microsystems stand out in a highly commoditised technology market, chief executive Scott McNealy says. If there's no controversy, and everybody buys into our ideas and follows them, there is no chance of making money...
[March 24, 2003, 9:19]
McNealy Calls For Java To Get Tough
News Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy defended the business merits of his company's Java effort on Friday, saying that, despite disappointing sales of Sun's own Java software, the effort has helped keep Microsoft at bay.
[June 16, 2003, 8:10]
McNealy Takes Pricing Fight To Oracle
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy on Wednesday took some potshots at a major business partner, database giant Oracle, for its software pricing policy. The brash McNealy twice criticised a significant detail of how Oracle sells its software based on...
[December 9, 2004, 7:30]
McNealy Scoffs At .Net
News But Ballmer's peppy speech earned him a barrage of criticism from archrival Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems and another featured speaker at the Internet Summit. An outspoken Microsoft basher, McNealy insisted his Washington-based rival will...
[July 24, 2001, 14:54]
Comdex '99: McNealy - A Future Without Microsoft
News What would a Scott McNealy Comdex keynote speech be without tossing a few projectiles in the direction of Microsoft? Meanwhile, McNealy called for a breakup of Microsoft if the company can't comply with the remedies that Sun recommends be imposed...
[November 18, 1999, 9:42]
McNealy Tees Off At Symantec Event
News Scott McNealy isn't chief executive of Sun Microsystems anymore, but that doesn't mean he has more free time to play golf. So McNealy hit a few balls from the stage of Symantec's Vision conference in San Francisco, straight into the audience.
[May 10, 2006, 10:05]
IT Forum: McNealy Predicts 'W2K' Disaster
News Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy spoke by live satellite link to the IT Forum in Paris Tuesday afternoon and broke what must be a personal record -- he took less than 20 seconds to make a negative point about Microsoft.
[September 14, 1999, 16:08]
McNealy Criticises 'jalopy' IT Culture
News Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy chided thousands of gearheads gathered at the OracleWorld conference for overengineering their companies' computer systems. Everyone is building their own jalopies," McNealy said Tuesday during a...
[September 10, 2003, 9:10]
Computers 'too Expensive' - McNealy
News Customers are paying up to 10 times what they should to buy and run computers, but a correction will come soon, according to Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy. The world has to be getting a little disappointed in our industry," McNealy...
[September 17, 2003, 9:05]
Jesse Berst: McNealy's Gates Envy Could Kill Sun
News Yes, despite stiff competition, McNealy's idea is the dumbest thing I've heard so far. Latest example: Scott McNealy is on the verge of moving his company off course -- and smack into a brick wall. If you look to the future, McNealy's latest move...
[August 24, 1999, 9:34]
McNealy Dodges Crisis Talk
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy has spent the last two days in endless rounds of meetings with customers and the media at his company's first European user conference in Berlin and, not surprisingly, the question of Sun's financial situation and...
[December 4, 2003, 14:30]
US Report: McNealy - 'Java Will Be Everywhere, Including NC'
News But don't count out the NC yet, McNealy added in his address on Wednesday at Harvard University's Conference on Internet and Society. People wonder how come it all hasn't yet changed their lives," even though so little time has passed since the...
[May 28, 1998, 10:05]
