Comments on: Adios, Amateur Hour. The Big Dog marks his turf

Jerry Yang may have bested Steve Ballmer but now he's up against one of the most brilliant, capitalist pain-in-the-ass corporate raiders in history, Carl Icahn.

[gggg sssss]

We live in interesting times. If it is a public company you are running, then the shareholders come first, second and third. Any feel good mantel can only be there to bolster 1, 2 and 3. At least Yang will retire richer than he ever had expected.

[Penguinisto]

I kind of figured someone would wait until MSFT got kicked to the curb to make their own move... OTOH, I don't think Icahn is going to be the big bad boogeyman that everyone paints him as. He may win, sure - but it'll probably cost him a lot to do it (as much as, if not more than what MSFT had on offer). Good luck with that, etc...

[john55440]

This is going to be *very* interesting.

[aintnorainbowdorothy]

So let Icahn do his thing an get rid of Yang. As for his slate of drectors, I noticed an extremely interesting person. The one and only Mark Cuban. Wonder if Cuban would become CEO? Now talk about interesting.