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Due to copyright restrictions, I cannot post the excerpt I intended from USA today. Therefore, I not quote directly from the article, and must make this post a "vanity". If the Admin Mod considers this link, to be a problem (I'm not sure what the issue involves), hopefully they will remove it and you can find the article yourself via Google. This comment is in response to an editorial titled "Stingy immigration policy stifles U.S. innovation", by By Lezlee Westine and Scott McNealy. The Italics are my summary of Westine and McNealy's comments, the balance of this post is my...

Exclusive The emails have poured in all day. "Thanks for the memories, Scott. It was fun." Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy says that most well-wishers seem to be treating his relinquishment of the CEO post as some kind of sad departure from the company he helped start. This reaction surprises McNealy to a degree - given that he'll spend the next few months traveling around the globe doing what he's done for the last quarter century - talk about Sun. You can, however, understand how outside observers sense a more dramatic shift taking place. McNealy has thinned out the ever-shrinking...

Excerpt - Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, and has been replaced by President Jonathan Schwartz, the company said Monday. McNealy, who will remain as chairman, was one of four co-founders of Sun 24 years ago and has been CEO for the last 22 of those. Since then, he has been a strong and often contrarian voice for change in the computing industry, but in recent years his vision hasn't translated into financial success. "Jonathan has risen to the top of the class, and he is ready," McNealy said in a conference call. The move...

Exclusive Ernst and Young should go ahead and pony up for its own suite of transparency services. The accounting firm has failed to disclose a high profile loss of customer data after being confronted by The Register. Ernst and Young has lost a laptop containing data such as the social security numbers of its customers. One of the people affected by the data loss appears to be Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, who was notified that his social security number and personal information have been compromised. While pushing all out transparency for its customers, Ernst and Young failed to...

A prominent technology analyst for Merrill Lynch is urging Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) to slash as much as 15 percent of its workforce and focus on being a niche player in mission-critical computing -- or risk joining the "carcasses" of formerly-great companies DEC and Data General at the bottom of a tech "ravine." In an open letter to Sun's chief executive Scott McNealy urging the company's board to take action, Steven Milunovich wrote that "Sun faces a crisis. It's necessary to cut expenses to assure profitability and narrow the product focus to reestablish a clear value proposition." If the company...

Raving Luni, aka Ron of Linux-Universe has contributed this interesting analysis of the current battle raging against Open Source, and by extension, Freedom in general. Sun is behind it too, very much. The Unholy Trinity shares one common issue: "Open Source software is eating into their profits". So they all support this action in a desperate attempt to save their business model. Here are the patients: SCO is in critical condition, so they go first. Sun is in serious condition, they will come too, more forcefully if they don't find a successful business arround OSS first. So they play both...