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Articles for the keywords: Scott McNealy
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13 May 2013
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Sun Microsystems' stars: Where are they now? [30998]
Bechtolsheim, McNealy, Joy, Khosla, Gage, Schwartz, ...
Sun's stars: Where are they now?
Julie Sartain writes in Network World,
"Sun was founded Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy in 1982. Sun went public in 1986 and was raking in $1 billion in annual sales by 1988. One of the brightest lights in Silicon Valley for more than two decades, Suns bread and butter was high-performance workstations and servers running Sun's SPARC chips and Sun's Solaris operating system. The company was also a staunch open source supporter. Among Suns many innovations were NFS (network file system) and Java...":
- Andy Bechtolsheim
- Vinod Khosla
- Scott McNealy
- Bill Joy
- Eric Schmidt
- John Gage
- Jonathan Schwartz
- Tim Bray
- Simon Phipps
- Charles Nutter
- James Gosling
Read on to find out where these and other Sun Alumni have landed.
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29 Jan 2013
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Scott McNealy on How to Keep Your Balance: Lessons and Mistakes [29580]
The IT Industry on the High Wire
From the helm of his new startup, Wayin (wayin.com), Scott McNealy imparts some of the wisdom gleaned from his time at Sun in a brief Webcast. Rose Tibayan of Blackline conveys the content to viewers. He advises building quality into one's organization. Differentiate; avoid long-term contracts -- don't speculate, innovate; define a cause and pursue it; unless you are Steve Jobs, don't follow his model, foster consensus instead. Choose your directors wisely; stay in touch with your managers and don't hesitate to let the wrong people go. There's much more, and it's well worth the 14 minutes it takes to watch the whole show.
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15 Feb 2011
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'A Year Later: Has Oracle Ruined Or Saved Sun?' [23920]
Paul Krill of InfoWorld Offers Some Points to Ponder
It's a complicated picture that Paul Krill sketches in his CIO article "A Year Later: Has Oracle Ruined or Saved Sun?" The answer is ambiguous, necessarily, given the number of Sun technologies that Oracle has terminated (along with key engineering personnel who have left), and the former customers of Sun, some of whom are still in limbo over the future of their underlying Sun-based infrastructure. It's almost as though Scott McNealy was still running things. There have been some profitable synergies as a result of the acquisition, Krill concedes, synergies that promise abundant profit. But, perhaps a less ambiguous answer could be arrived at were the question, "What if Oracle had not acquired Sun; would there still be a Sun Microsystems?" And, then, the industry itself is undergoing vast changes. Consider the irony that part of Facebook is now housed in Sun's former corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park.
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04 Jan 2011
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Sun Founders Panel 2006 [23795]
Computer History Museum (and YouTube)
Redundancy is sometimes the salvation of technology. Certainly in the case involving the supposed holdings of the Computer History Museum, without redundancy and YouTube, the "Sun Microsystems Founders Panel" (Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and moderator John Gage) would have vanished forever since the video disappeared mysteriously from the museum's web site during the confusion around the reorganization reflecting Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Now, in all their glory, the founding four, courtesy of YouTube, share their personal stories of the early days at Sun.
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27 Dec 2010
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Now that the Dust Has Settled ... (and Sun Has Set) [23760]
McNealy on the Demise of Sun (and What He Wishes He Had Done Differently)
Take a few minutes to read Gavin Clarke's revealing account in The Register of Scott McNealy's post-acquisition reflections. There are several choice McNealy quotes, such as, "I think we got the donate part right, I don't think we got the monetize part right." And this: "If we'd have just decided to release Solaris on metal instead of shrink wrapped, Solaris on Intel would have been a wild hit and nobody would have done Linux."
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