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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