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Sun Owes It All To Scott McNealy
News Some commentators even began to call for the removal of the company's controversial chief executive Scott McNealy. That same Gartner analyst also questioned Scott McNealy's leadership, claiming his vision of the IT industry has become a barrier to...
[January 23, 2004, 16:25]
Scott McNealy Still Busy At Sun
News Scott McNealy, the outspoken Sun co-founder who led the company as chief executive for 22 years, has been kicked upstairs to the chairman suite, but is far from retiring. McNealy, who co-founded Sun with Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy...
[October 18, 2007, 16:40]
McNealy: Don't Let Microsoft Steal The Net
News Programmers are on the front lines in the battle to keep Microsoft from taking over the standards that underlie the Internet, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy told loyal users of Sun's Java software on Tuesday.
[March 27, 2002, 9:53]
Sun Customers Angry At Solaris Roadblock
News In an open letter to Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy, a group of users has called for the company to make Solaris 9 available on the lion's share of computers based on the Intel architecture.
[September 4, 2002, 10:19]
Java Phones Take Centre Stage At JavaOne
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy talks about the politics behind the new Web Services Interoperability Group headed by Microsoft and IBM. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy talks about the company's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft and the...
[March 26, 2002, 12:50]
Sun Seeks To Restore Its Sheen
News We have told McNealy that he does fixate on Microsoft too much," General Motors' Scott said. Then, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich issued an open letter on Thursday to Sun chief executive Scott McNealy, urging him to cut expenses through...
[October 8, 2003, 11:20]
Ballmer And McNealy Play Buddies
News In an interview in San Francisco with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Sun chief executive Scott McNealy talked about the deal, what it means for competitors, whether Scott will stop making fun of...
[April 5, 2004, 11:25]
Sun Shareholders Seek Influence Over Exec Pay
News In addition, Schwartz, who took over the chief executive job in April from Chairman Scott McNealy, was granted restricted stock worth $12.97m and 2.9 million stock options that vest over a period of years.
[September 25, 2006, 9:30]
Sun's Chinese Deal 'shuts Out Microsoft'
News But speaking at his company's European user event in Berlin today, Sun president, chairman and chief executive Scott McNealy admitted the deal won't be a big money spinner. But Sun will survive for as long as Scott McNealy wants it to.
[December 4, 2003, 10:35]
Free Office Suite On Verge Of A Million Downloads
News Sun CEO Scott McNealy recently claimed his newly acquired office software racked up 250,000 downloads in its first week. In the first week and a half since we launched it, we've had over a quarter of a million people download it for free, said Sun...
[November 2, 1999, 11:28]
Sun Returns To Growth
News Chief executive Scott McNealy said in a statement that shipments of Sun servers increased 46 percent from the year-earlier quarter. Shipments of Sun servers increased 46 percent from the year-earlier quarter, which chief executive Scott McNealy...
[July 21, 2004, 9:05]
Sun Reports Gloomy Results
News Despite the financial woes for the quarter -- the company's first in fiscal 2004 -- Sun is not changing its strategy and doesn't plan more layoffs, at least for now, chief executive Scott McNealy said.
[October 17, 2003, 11:15]
Why Oracle And HP Tied The Knot
News As part of the deal, Sun CEO Scott McNealy supposedly promised to make Sun the first customer for the software. Or as the HP source put it, "Larry (Ellison) hates Siebel, so when Scott McNealy implemented them" things started moving.
[September 23, 1999, 10:00]
Tales Of The Rising Sun
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy had to be wined and dined at a Silicon Valley McDonald's before he gave up his reluctance to help launch the workstation maker in 1982, according to one of many tales the company co-founders recounted last week.
[January 16, 2006, 12:10]
Sun Faces Shareholder Mutiny
News The move comes after Sun issued a salary hike and a cash bonus to its chief executive, Scott McNealy. From 2001 through 2004, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy was awarded options to buy [7.5 million] shares of Sun stock.
[September 22, 2005, 8:45]
Sun And IBM Bury The Hatchet
News Scott McNealy said last week he expects Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and perhaps Red Hat Enterprise Linux to be the only major survivors in the server operating system market. We don't have any other enemies to do a deal with," quipped chief...
[June 28, 2005, 10:00]
Sun Launches StarOffice 8
Talkback Scott McNealy is a liar! Well Pony Up Scott! At his keynote speech at the 1998 Java Business conference he said (repeatedly.many many times) that Star Office would always be 100% free.
[September 27, 2005, 17:06]
Ballmer And Gates Are Quitters, Says Sun Boss
News Sun's controversial chief executive Scott McNealy never misses an opportunity to score points off rival Microsoft, and on a trip to the UK this week he stayed true to form. Speaking at a European Technology Forum event in London on Thursday...
[August 1, 2003, 11:15]
Sun: Zero-revenue Model Is No Threat
News Sun Microsystems may have been the last major server maker to embrace Linux, but chief executive Scott McNealy argues that the company will benefit more than its competitors from the open-source software.
[February 12, 2004, 10:30]
Sun CEO Taken In By Photoshop
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy showed a photo during a Wednesday speech to illustrate how rapidly technology improves--but instead illustrated another computing phenomenon: how easy it is to fall for an Internet hoax.
[December 9, 2004, 12:00]
