McNutley is just another egotistical arse. By his arrogance, he just condemned his stockholders to getting a far lower payout on their shares. If I were a Sun shareholder, I'd hunt that bastard down and rip him a new one.

IBM should just sit back and slowly accumulate Sun shares until they have enough to take over cheaply, then throw McNutley and Schwartz on their keisters.

Well if I had money I'd be buying Sun shares right now. If Big Blue was interested they are still interested, they just decided they could pay an inflated price to the shareholders without paying bloated severance packages to the top echelon leeches... er, executives.

Too bad the shareholders have no say in this.