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Schwartz did get his way... | 359 comments | Create New Account
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Wasn't J. Schwartz CEO at the relevant time?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 07:25 AM EDT
I think you are mixing up internal with external
relationships in a corporation.

The CEO represents the company to the outside world, has
signing power for contracts and business deals. U.S.
corporations do not do management by committee. That is one
of the key criticisms of corporate America, namely that
CEO's do have too much power and that they are defacto
dictatorships.

So if Mcnealy and Schwartz had some disagreement that would
be in the domain of the SUNS internal relationships, any
outside party or constiuents in contracts and agreements do
not have to be concerned with internal relationships of a
corporation, they only have to be concerned with who is
their contact person to the outside world and if he is
authorized to put ink on a paper.

Thats all there is, anything else would be in violation of
basic business principles and of the principles of equity
and good faith.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Schwartz did get his way...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 08:52 AM EDT
Um, you don't make any sense. Schwartz's policy was
implemented.

Sour grapes now are from other parties (Oracle, McNealey et
al) attempting to rewrite history and claim that Schwartz was
irrelevant to Sun's policies just because they wish he had
done things differently.

The history is there regardless of Oracle's attempt to hide
it by removing evidence published in Sun's site and blogs.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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