Furthermore, McNealy's words contradict those of his own COO, Ed Zander, who denied Sun had big plans to move into the Linux market. In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Zander said: "We feel it's important for application development and...
That's the view of Sun's chief operating officer, Ed Zander. I've been making sales calls but no one wants to talk about buying, they just want to talk about what happened in New York," Zander said. Zander was speaking in Manhattan at the launch of...
Ed Zander's departure from Sun Microsystems could spell the end of the company's dreams of becoming a top web services player. The loss of these executives, he added, puts McNealy in a dictatorship position.
Previously, CEO Scott McNealy had said the company didn't need to fill the position, after the departure of Ed Zander in 2002. The executives said they had been working on the deal for a year, since McNealy had made a call to his Microsoft...
The story goes that when Zander was offered the top job at an ailing Motorola, his aged mother asked him to think long and hard as to whether he really wanted to climb such a mountain. Zander is a class act and is showing just how far he can go...
When Ed Zander left his joint role as Sun's president and chief operating officer in 2002, some called for a more buttoned-down replacement. In recent months, there has been an outflow of top executives at Sun.