Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb

RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION!" "THIS COULD BE THE BLUE PRINT FOR IRAN!".......2007-06-16

It's hard to remember a time when there wasn't a computer on every desktop, but in 1981, engineers had to stand in line to use their company's mainframes. Sun's business strategy was to sell a desktop workstation for each employee who needed a computer. On top of that, Sun allowed those workstations to exchange data via an intracompany network, and used graphical interfaces to make them easier to navigate. Standard stuff now, but a radical series of concepts back then, and it was inevitable that Sun would clash with Microsoft. Sun CEO Scott McNealy's enmity for the software colossus is well-known--he was a key player in the U.S. government's antitrust action against Microsoft in the late 1990s--and it temporarily scattered the company's focus, leading to a major reorganization.

The conclusion to the Sun story is, of course, unknown. Southwick ends her book with a peek into the future, speculating on what will become of promising computer languages like Java and Jini. But it seems like it'll be a long time before Sun sets. --Lou Schuler

I might have rated this four stars a few years ago. The only qualms are that the author should have presumed a more technical, computer-literate audience, and the audio quality was inferior (I listened to the unabridged Audible version).

After reading this book, it is shocking to imagine all those trillions earned by Japanese manufacturing got squandered by arrogant, ill-equipped bureaucrats.

He does ramble on a bit, and repeat himself, but since he wrote from loads of interviews, I guess they all say the same things.

In 1988 as a fresh-faced 18-year-old, Barry Ley made his first tentative foray into the cut-throat world of timeshare sales. This book chronicles his adventures around the world, ranging from humorous anecdotes of sales tactics to hair-raising tales of life as a young, inexperienced Brit abroad.

BARRY IS ONE OF THOS SHIFTY CHARACTER THAT YOU GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO AVOID ON HOLIDAY - BUT YOU HAVE TO ADMIT YOU MUST HAVE BEEN CURIOUS AS TO HOW THE HELL THEY EARN A LIVING?
HE'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH THE HIGH AND THE LOWS OF THE MURKY WORLD OF TIMESHARE.

My identity as a Korean-Canadian male notwithstanding, I found myself agreeing with her assessment on "Little Korea." Like her, I, too, despised the quarrelsome, catty and gossip-prone Korean expatriate community (read Korean church), and held both my volatile father and his Korean friends in contempt. Then as now, I simply could not understand why they still cling to the old values from home in a place where such values are simply incompatible. Moreover, I could never understand why so many of my second-generation Korean-Canadian friends cling so dearly to an institution (Church) that is bound to destroy them. As early as fourteen I understood that the Korean church would ultimately destroy me and my friends, and cut my ties with it. Most of my friends did not. She may be right, after all, about the inability of the Korean kids to grow up.

My understanding is that she wrote the book, not to change the flawed mentality of Little Korea and the two Koreas far away,--after all, such attempt is not only impossible but futile--but to sift through her confusion and anger. It took a lot of courage on her part to hold a mirror to the face that was flawed Korean mentality. That is why she commands my deep respect.