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With rumors of a takeover by IBM swirling around him, Sun Microsytems’ chairman Scott McNealy tried to pitch a room of customers this week on the idea that Sun is a wily innovator whose software and hardware are far less costly than proprietary solutions from Oracle and, yes, IBM. But McNealy had little to offer loyal customers with Sun’s legacy Sparc hardware.

McNealy touted Sun’s vision of cloud computing and the folly of “best of breed” to about 200 customers and partners. “Frankenstein was best of breed, and every time he keels over, IBM comes in with $100,000 shock paddles,” McNealy said. Sun’s goal “is to get you out of the kitchen. We build data centers; you do whatever you do,” adding that “building a data center out of 40 different parts is last year’s strategy.”

Sun’s McNealy touts open source, bashes Oracle and IBM

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