Has Jonathan Schwartz finally found success? ( IBN takes over SUN)

Marketwatch ^ | 12:01 a.m. EDT March 19, 2009 | Therese Poletti, MarketWatch

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Commentary: Sale to IBM seems last, best hope for Sun Microsystems

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- It is ironic that an executive widely heralded for his technological brilliance likely will end up best known as a scavenger salesman.

When Jonathan Schwartz became CEO at Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2006, the ponytailed software guru was expected to pull a struggling Silicon Valley icon away from its reliance on tech hardware and finally make some serious money out of the company's notable slate of software products, including the ever-popular Java programming language.

Though Sun started to see revenue in the software business, Schwartz instead probably will be remembered as the guy who managed to strip the company down and sell it for half of what it was worth the day he took the top job.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Please excuse the typo in the Headline...Should be IBM Takes over Sun...

[Zhang Fei]

I’ve been a big fan of IBN ever since the PT/2 and OT/2 line of products came out.

[paulycy]

Don’t call him Schwartz...that’s what got Jackie Mason in trouble ;0)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!...typo’s can be fun.

[VeniVidiVici]

Wonder why Oracle isn’t interested in Sun? They are pretty tight and Oracle could finally dump Red Hat and install the Oracle Linux on Sun hardware.