In 'The Conspiracy', Bill Gates and Scott McNealy have become allies in a plan for world domination. Having clashed light sabres in 'The Showdown', they now repose in a distant space bar, devising a scheme for Sun and Microsoft to take over the server and OS markets.
Checkout 'The Conspiracy'.
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New Tales From TheServerSide Cartoon: Gates and McNealy Part II (23 messages)
- Posted by: Nate Borg
- Posted on: February 11 2003 12:24 EST
Threaded Messages (23)
- Good Graphics... by Not a Nerd on February 11 2003 13:50 EST
- Quite Brilliant actually by Fred Ruopp on February 11 2003 21:59 EST
- Quite Brilliant actually by bob farmer on February 12 2003 11:22 EST
- Who says this couldn't be true? by sverre wendelbo on February 19 2003 15:08 EST
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Funny and remotely plausible by Shankar Acharya on February 19 2003 06:52 EST
- HP, Digital, Tandem, Apollo, and Compaq all one company by Dan Mullen on February 19 2003 10:31 EST
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Funny and remotely plausible by Shankar Acharya on February 19 2003 06:52 EST
- New Tales From TheServerSide Cartoon: Gates and McNealy Part II by hthjf fgfgfg on February 12 2003 08:35 EST
- LOL by joost de vries on February 12 2003 10:26 EST
- No I will never join you!! by Adam Greene on February 12 2003 11:21 EST
- LOL by Oleg Fedoroff on February 19 2003 06:55 EST
- LOL by joost de vries on February 12 2003 10:26 EST
- The next chapter.... by me likesmoney on February 13 2003 11:48 EST
- The next chapter.... by bob farmer on February 13 2003 12:29 EST
- Very Funny by Jim Livingston on February 16 2003 02:33 EST
- The next chapter.... by bob farmer on February 13 2003 12:29 EST
- good but... by Teunis Biemond on February 19 2003 02:15 EST
- No fun at all... by Johan Stenberg on February 19 2003 02:40 EST
- swearing?... get real (n/t) by Pete Gomez on February 19 2003 08:11 EST
- Cool and Scary Stuff by Parvez Shah on March 13 2003 11:23 EST
- Once you go cheap you never go back by David Liu on March 19 2003 10:18 EST
- so funny by Jorge Arias on April 11 2003 14:26 EDT
- I that is not a easy thing! by karma ho on April 15 2003 21:23 EDT
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Survival of the fittest by Richard Landon on May 23 2003 07:58 EDT
- Fit != Best by Tom Smith on December 22 2004 07:47 EST
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Survival of the fittest by Richard Landon on May 23 2003 07:58 EDT
- How many patches ? by Santosh Shitole on October 23 2003 00:35 EDT
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Good Graphics...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Not a Nerd
- Posted on: February 11 2003 13:50 EST
- in response to Nate Borg
Things getting interesting ( on lighter side..) I can imagine moving forward "Mcnealy filing a lawsuit on $ Bill for polluting SPARC" ;) -
Quite Brilliant actually[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Fred Ruopp
- Posted on: February 11 2003 21:59 EST
- in response to Nate Borg
Sometimes, I think the animated mind can see the furthest.
SUN is going to die, unless they do something BIG soon.
MS is like the Picture of Dorian Grey. -
Quite Brilliant actually[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: bob farmer
- Posted on: February 12 2003 11:22 EST
- in response to Fred Ruopp
But Dorian Gray is a funner read ... -
Who says this couldn't be true?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: sverre wendelbo
- Posted on: February 19 2003 15:08 EST
- in response to Fred Ruopp
None of them is an angel, both of them would find an interest in doing it, web services at that stage are no lion share... So, why not? -
Funny and remotely plausible[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Shankar Acharya
- Posted on: February 19 2003 18:52 EST
- in response to sverre wendelbo
You chaps should get over the *minor* amount of bad language in this cartoon. In fact I'm glad it is there.
It is the tiny remote possibility of this happening combined with the currently perceived absurdity of the whole thing that makes this cartoon amusing.
Did you think HP, Digital, Tandem, Apollo, and Compaq would all be the same company one day? -
HP, Digital, Tandem, Apollo, and Compaq all one company[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dan Mullen
- Posted on: February 19 2003 22:31 EST
- in response to Shankar Acharya
Except maybe Apollo, it seems incredible that even two of these former giants have combined!
So, what the hey! Sun and Microsoft together, why not!
They'd have an OS for a closed platform.
Maybe they could call the combined concern Apple.
Oh, that's taken. -
New Tales From TheServerSide Cartoon: Gates and McNealy Part II[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: hthjf fgfgfg
- Posted on: February 12 2003 08:35 EST
- in response to Nate Borg
This is good. Very Funny. -
LOL[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: joost de vries
- Posted on: February 12 2003 10:26 EST
- in response to hthjf fgfgfg
Now that's a scary scenario for the future... -
No I will never join you!![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Adam Greene
- Posted on: February 12 2003 11:21 EST
- in response to joost de vries
Love the cartoon. -
LOL[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Oleg Fedoroff
- Posted on: February 19 2003 06:55 EST
- in response to joost de vries
The real message is "by 2005" (and he leaves open how much and by when in the year.) What direction will the rest of us be going by then while they're still heading off in that direction? -
The next chapter....[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: me likesmoney
- Posted on: February 13 2003 11:48 EST
- in response to Nate Borg
A giant droid named 'big blue' turns out to be the real evil emperor and plots to destroy both McNealy and Gates deep within it's Power4Planet....
Nice strip...funny take on the situation. -
The next chapter....[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: bob farmer
- Posted on: February 13 2003 12:29 EST
- in response to me likesmoney
Maybe they should add Marc Fleury as a french undercover waiter, bugging the conversation of McNealy and Gates and then post it on internalmemos.com? -
Very Funny[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jim Livingston
- Posted on: February 16 2003 14:33 EST
- in response to bob farmer
This is very funny. Good job guys! It's your best cartoon so far.
You should definitely expand your coverage to industry characters such as Fleury and Richard Oberg and others with an enhanced sense of self-importance. -
good but...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Teunis Biemond
- Posted on: February 19 2003 02:15 EST
- in response to Nate Borg
good cartoon but it made me sad to see the swearing; without that you really don't lose any of your message -
No fun at all...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Johan Stenberg
- Posted on: February 19 2003 02:40 EST
- in response to Teunis Biemond
I'm sorry to say this, but I think the cartoon was pure crap. -
swearing?... get real (n/t)[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Pete Gomez
- Posted on: February 19 2003 08:11 EST
- in response to Teunis Biemond
n/t -
Cool and Scary Stuff[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Parvez Shah
- Posted on: March 13 2003 11:23 EST
- in response to Nate Borg
Ya it can raelly Happen they are big combine together they will control everything MOBILE desktop Server no one can compete with them then -
Once you go cheap you never go back[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: David Liu
- Posted on: March 19 2003 10:18 EST
- in response to Parvez Shah
This server and PC is suffering the same way the airlines are. Once the internet introduce cheap airline tickets, people will not pay $500 for a ticket anymore. PC and OS are no different. -
so funny[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jorge Arias
- Posted on: April 11 2003 14:26 EDT
- in response to Parvez Shah
nice
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I that is not a easy thing![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: karma ho
- Posted on: April 15 2003 21:23 EDT
- in response to Parvez Shah
I think ,i it hard to solve the question.
New things come out when the times go on.
So maybe for a long time ,the condition will not change till the whole become change. -
Survival of the fittest[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Richard Landon
- Posted on: May 23 2003 19:58 EDT
- in response to karma ho
If Linux (or whatever) goes the way of the dinosaurs... its because it was a dinosaur. The fit survive (period). If it did not survive it was not fit.
Deal with it. -
Fit != Best[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Tom Smith
- Posted on: December 22 2004 19:47 EST
- in response to Richard Landon
Fitness in technology often has more to do with economics and branding than actual value. Beta v. VHS?
In evolutionary fitness, if conditions arise where having intelligence is mortally dangerous to the individual, then intelligence will become scarce in the population... Like dinosaurs...
Not necessarily better, just a better 'fit' to the environment.
Hmmm. Maybe it's already happening. -
How many patches ?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Santosh Shitole
- Posted on: October 23 2003 00:35 EDT
- in response to Nate Borg
When McNealy says "Lets get it done by 2005", I feel he is ignorant about how many patches windows will require to run on sparc.
At the same time Bill gives a mysterious smile with the words "We need to move fast", as if he knows that it will take 10s of releases, until windows survives without a crash on sparc for a day.