RE: [cobalt-users] Sun Solaris??? Bad Business Decision

["Lyle Scheer" <lyle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Lyle,
>
> It seems to me your reasoning could work in the opposite
> direction also however.... SUN
> could have bought Cobalt because they did not >want< to have
> to inovate or create two
> different products, and so they bought Cobalt out so that
> they could swallow it in and
> quietly scuttle it...?

Sure, if you believe they'd pay 2 Billion dollars to scuttle a product they
didn't like.  That doesn't sound like good business to me, however.

> The reason people are getting so bent is because the CEO of
> the company clearly stated,
> not just in an "ify" way that their intention >is< to kill
> the Linux implimentation of
> Cobalt appliances off in favor of their unix flavor...

FUD?  I hadn't heard that the Mcnealy made any such statement.  Can you show
me the article that quotes the CEO?

- Lyle