Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
| I guess we'll just have to see which one of the two can keep going out
| of business longer! ;)
Apple is the odds-on favorite, I think. Apple has more experience at it:
they've been going out of business since 1976, while Sun's only been doing
it since 1982. Indeed, Apple's excellence in going out of business is so
widely recognized that the press regularly reports on it. (Do recall that
Apple is the company that paid NeXT to take them over. Brilliant!)
However, it must be admitted that Sun shows more creativity here than Apple.
How many companies devote the time, resources, and publicity that Sun does
to a product that produces no income? Apple's tried to achieve that--the
Cube was a shining moment there--but they lack the daring that Sun has to
*keep* the product on the market when it fails to show a profit. Unless
Apple follows Sun's lead in such things, Apple might yet disappoint the
world and be forever condemned to not going out of business.
Glen Fisher
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