IP: Sun Microsystems chairman "famed in Silicon Valley for being outspoken Good Morning Silicon Valley Thu Mar 22 12:00:23 EST 2001

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Sun Microsystems chairman "famed in Silicon Valley for being outspoken": 
>While Sun Microsystems' rollout of its new UltraSparc III-based servers on 
>Wednesday was the subject of much commentary, it was 
><http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/078686.htm>Sun Chairman 
>Scott McNealy's assessment of the downward spiral of technology issues 
>that really inspired bemused discussion. "People are feeling really 
>wounded because they bought stocks at 100 times revenues, and they can't 
>understand why their life's savings is gone," McNealy told Reuters. 
>"People, get a grip! Look at what you did! 'Hey, that truck hit me!' Well, 
>you play in the freeway, you are going to get hit by a truck... We didn't 
>predict the wild and crazy up and we didn't predict the wild and crazy 
>down. And we're not alone. When things get back to normal, I'll be dead."

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