McNealy Resignation Rumors Prove True
from the time-on-his-hands dept
Last week, I wrote about how The Wall Street Journal and others took the Scott McNealy resignation rumors legit, but didn't back the story up any more than the people in the game of telephone several weeks earlier. Turns out the WSJ did have one thing on its side -- timing. McNealy announced today that he was stepping aside after 22 years in charge of Sun Microsystems, confirming what one analyst had predicted and handing a moral victory to contrarians everywhere. McNealy is staying full-time at Sun as chairman, while president and COO Jonathan Schwartz will take over as CEO. As many are pointing out, McNealy is one of the last holdouts of an early era in Silicon Valley, where companies were led by their "swashbuckling founders", as the AP put it, so perhaps Schwartz' ascendance to the throne signals the era of the blogger as CEO, given his popular blog. Of course, it probably won't be too long before Sun's lawyers shut that down. Though maybe now McNealy can start blogging. He'd probably be more entertaining anyway.
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
so when will the rumors start
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: so when will the rumors start
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]