From: Ad 

John Beamish wrote:
> Scott McNealy and Steve Jobs ... one would have to be head honcho and
> the other would be second banana.  Can I sell tickets?
>

Zed's dead baby.....

Scott's stepped down in favour of Schwartz though he remains as chairman.


Course summat like this might bring him back out of his transylvanian castle...

Adam

> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:03:59 -0400, Ad
>  wrote:
>
>> Pondering the recent trajectories of Solaris & OSX......
>>
>> inc the close relationship wrt java, ZFS, & possibly Open Office.....
>>
>> Given the similarities at a low level of OSX & Solaris....
>>
>> Given their lack of overlap in market segments.....i.e. OSX basically
>> being a desktop BSD derivative & Solaris being a server bsd derivative
>> (OK maybe a Stanford Std Distrib derivative)....
>>
>> one sees itself as the content creator patform & one the content
>> delivery platform (dot in dot com etc etc).....
>>
>> Heck even their HQ'es are reasonably close together....
>>
>> Imagine a Solaris 10/11 with the OSX desktop, a specific version of
>> OpenOffice etc as it's Office suite etc.etc.
>>
>> Sun can look after the hardware to console end of things & Apple can
>> take it from console to GUI....
>>
>>
>> Adam
>

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