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Quip while you're ahead

25 April 2006

As you've probably read elsewhere, Scott McNealy has announced he is stepping aside as chief executive of Sun Microsystems. Reuters has written a tribute rounding up some of his best jibes at the competition. I particularly like his description of Microsoft's Outlook as 'LookOut' because of its security flaws. When Sun's revenue missed forecasts in 2003, he reportedly said: "We want credit for not blaming SARS or the war."