Semi, I'm sure there's some personal animosity involved, but the main thing to me is that McNealy has many other reasons to "be the rebel" and take on Intel face-to-face. Some of it is ego, some of it is politics, and some of it is just business. I don't expect any of that to change once Otellini becomes CEO.
*** Oh, of course. I don't expect Scott and Paul will ever be drinking buddies. I was thinking more along the lines of a truce, rather then the open warfare that appears to me to exist now.
By the way, the replacing of Sun/Solaris with WinNT seems more like a Grove thing, not a Barrett thing. (I would have pointed the finger at Albert Yu, but you were talking about manufacturing, which wasn't Albert's domain.) After all, wasn't it Grove who kicked out the IBM contractors after IBM did a "demonstration" of how serious the FDIV bug was?
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*** Hummmmm, the switchover definately happened while Craig was CEO. Granted, Andy was Chairman of the Board, so no doubt there was influence there, and I guess it actually wouldn't be technically correct to say Barrett either, since it was most likely the Vice President in charge of the Technology Manufacturing Group (TMG) that actually signed off on it. Regardless, I have a feeling that the VP in charge of TMG, has REGULAR Face to Face meetings with the CEO, and the CEO certainly met with Chairman Andy, so most likely it was a concensus decision from the top down, IMO.
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