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- funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8My sister works there since Sun bought out StorageTek. Sun sounds like a good place to work.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7the openning of java would be interesting
- Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I hate to break it to you, but as someone who has invested in dozens of companies and sits on the boards of several, you have no idea what you're talking about. The chairman is the titular leader of the group that hires and fires the CEO, and that's about it. The CEO actually runs the company. The chairman, if he's really really active, might spend a day a week thinking about the company. maybe.
In fact "promoting" someone to chairman is usually a way to get them out of the CEO seat and fire them without firing them, in a politically sensitive situation or one where you've got someone who's a bad CEO but a strong spiritual leader or cultural influence in the seat.
McNealy is being put out to pasture. There are no two ways about it. And it's also about time. - Mapou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5My advice to Schwartz is the following. Don't try to beat either Linux or Microsoft at their games. You will lose. I suggest instead that you do something that will take the rest of the industry completely by surprise. Invest your remaining resources into the next big thing, the one thing that will solve the biggest problem in the computer industry: unreliability. Put all your money in non-algorithmic, signal-based, synchronous software. It will revolutionize both the hardware and the software industry and usher in the biggest change in computing since the days of Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace. Don't say you weren't warned. ahahaha...
Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm - stevemur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Amazingly, the new CEO Jonathan Schwartz joined McNealy to support their "major partnership" with Enron's Broadband Services, as chronicled in the books "23 Days", "The Smartest Guys in the Room" by Bethany McLean, and "Conspiracy of Fools". Jonathan believed, as did McNealy, that they could work with Enron to build a global broadband trading network in 3-5 years. Given that this was in 2001, where's the network?
Sun's glory days were "The Network IS the Computer" and "Dot in Dot Net" halcyon moments of '93-'97. McNealy, as interesting as he is to watch, drove the company to focus too much on bashing its competition rather than its customers. Steve Jobs, meanwhile, managed to focus on building innovation and branching out into new, related businesses like music, media, and specialized hardware to play it.
Score the past decade Gates 5, Jobs 3, McNealy 0. - zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What does it matter Sun's trouble go a little deeper than just the CEO.
Sun hardware has become irrelevant. You no longer need to buy a sun to run a solid UNIX.
There are Unix/Linux compatible boxes from many a vendor.
Sun market monopoly is over. One just hopes they don't end up like SGI. - navinjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In a related story: Bill Gates pumps fist in air and yells "I win!"
- version30.x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great run McNealy. I won't miss the babbling on and on and on though.
Then:
http://news.com.com//i/ne/p/2006/0112sunfounders82_500x385.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Java is competitive with C++ and has been proven to be even faster due to hot spot dynamic compilation. However, this does give Scott McNealy more time to surf for quality porn.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6>The death of Java would be excellent.
Your head in a George Foreman grill would be excellent. - Tsuroerusu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmmm, I think it was Jonathan Schwartz that once talked about releasing the entire Solaris Enterprise Operating System under the GPLv3 license, once it's finished, it'll be interesting to see if that happens. Why not? It would benefit Sun, I'm sure they have a lot of code in there that might need a caring hand and be polished off a bit, since Solaris is kind of an older operating system, I'm sure there's some dust that needs to be cleaned out.
And 'ey , maybe we'll even see Java open sourced some day, that'd be a wonderful thing if that happened. - multivariate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I hate to break it to all the McNealy haters out there, but Chairman of the Board generally has just as much control over a company's direction as the CEO.
- cpalmer74, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Jonathan came to visit my company's leadership team to present his simplified view of the world. His skill came in the form of taking things we despise about enterprise licensing and simplifiying it into simple, usage based metrics. Very refreshing.
He'll turn the company around if can continue to simplify, streamline and focus on building huge mega-cpu boxes that big corporations love to hate. Figure out how to sell a hosted ERP to big Oracle customers and make the next fortune! - mistercharlie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Looks like I just needed to hold onto my shares of SUNW for a few more years...
- Crazen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah the only barrier from making it the superior b2b language.
- ChewbaccaUC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, a cushy high-paying job as chairman...they're really sticking it to McNeally.
- Crazen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you heard either of them give speeches you wouldn't be asking that question. Mcneely fouled up citing his companies technology, schwartz knows his $hit.
- Crazen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because there is far more optimization that can be done when the optimizer has usage information. Have you ever taken a compiler construction course? All those choices they present are often decided based on statistics, in Java, you know what is going on based on ACTUAL USAGE. Also things like memory allocation in Java is faster than in C++ if you do it right, it takes far fewer instructions because it has a generational garbage collector so the system overhead of allocating the memory has been done, and one additional object is simply a memory write of a mark as opposed to the actual kernel allocation.
- filovirus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1RAAAAMONE, may the Schwartz be with you....
- pgouy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Does this means that Java will load faster and consume less memory now? :)
- hashkaran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What took them so long to replace McNealy..
wait a minute they replaced him with Jonathan Schwartz.. I don't know if that's a smart idea..
Hell... what difference is it gonna make it now. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1
Silly people. It looks like you ghetto dogs need an education. Scott McNealy is still the Chairman of the Board and thus is the puppet master for Schwartz. - jabowery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1First Fiorina, now McNealy -- the two most strung-out junkies for H-1b visas bite the dust -- taking their companies' tech leadeship with them.
- digitalblue1313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Do you think he will wear the Tux costume to the board meetings?
- digitalblue1313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, Scott. We know you have a big ego.
- SDNick484, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Here's another article on this: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14418693.htm
- Hexman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What monopoly? Gimme a break!
- drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Java is built on a C++ engine, how could it be faster than Java it runs another layer on top of C++. If a C++ programmer cannot develop a faster application than Java or any 5th genration software like .NET (virtual machines built with C++) then that is just sad.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Java is competitive with C++ and has been proven to be even faster due to hot spot dynamic compilation"
Thats up for debate - digitalblue1313, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Sagarian,
I agree totally. - Zephiron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0PT/BR: http://www.htk.com.br/noticia.php?noticia=576
- enzomedici, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1
McNealy couldn't give a speech without whining about Microsoft. Sun should have concentrated on their own demise instead of worrying about MS. - mr.t, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Wow, this should have happened 4 years ago. Bucktooth McNealy is finally outta there. I have a feeling that Sun is now for sale. Dare I say Google? Haha.
- drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Whew big news, maybe they need Google to rescue them and open up Java?
- bradspry, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Smoke and mirrors.
- Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1A jewish CEO?! What? It worked in The Hudsucker Proxy!
- nxusername, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3>> The death of Java would be excellent.
I second that emotion. - funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -15/+8The death of Java would be excellent.
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