Also, the Linux kernel development model relies on keeping patches small and splitting large code drops into a series of logically distinct patches. The problem what I see is when people make stupid statements like “oooh, it doesn’t include top” then base Solaris sucks all on that. My hope (for Sun) is that Schwartz keeps his eye on the fact that “Sun” == “Servers/Workstations” and “Sun” = “Solaris/Linux”, rather than “Sun” == “Java” or “Sun == “StarOffice”. It's tough to remember now that Java was once seen as proprietary, that Open Office was once seen as dormant, and that mySQL was once seen as Swedish. The answer can only be yes. Maybe that is the problem, Sun’s hardware is *too* good you can update and upgrade existing hardware without dumping the whole machine; for enterprise customers, a Sun machine is seen as a 10+ year investment, not something that can be rolled over every 3 years because some new fad has come along. He he he. "You can't see or touch them, and we can't use them to make customers feel better about Sun's future.". Secondarily, there is just some evolution that we need to ensure happens in concert with our customers. And an important distinction with our partitioning technology is you only need one Solaris license and you can run 1,000 instances, as opposed to the proprietary IBM release, which only runs on their Power products and requires a separate license for each partition you build. Many of us simply don’t know that much about Solaris, especially about the very recent developments in the OpenSolaris Project. We think the appetite for storage--whether it’s tape or disk or file systems used to store it, will only grow. After just over a year as chief executive, Jonathan Schwartz is moving into a new phase as the leader of Sun Microsystems. Sticks and stones. And when there’s a change in leadership, you get an opportunity to revisit all the basic assumptions. The answer was quite unlike what Schwartz had done before: a subscription-based health care site that would allow customers to keep track of the medical needs of the people for whom they care. netstat -r still isn’t working right and we still get LVM lockups under heavy IO where I work. A choice between Linux and Solaris would be awesome if they could share their work wherever it makes sense. Asking Sun the value of Java is like asking GE--which is, I think, the largest manufacturer of power turbines in the world--what the value of the standard plug is. 1 driver of growth at Sun, ahead of Solaris, its operating system for corporate computers. After the sale of Sun, after a few months off to get his "head straight," Schwartz started talking about what he wanted to do next with longtime friend Walter Smith, who worked on the Newton OS at Apple and later worked on Windows, Internet Explorer, and MSN at Microsoft. Everyone in the Linux world knows, whether they like Solairs/OpenSolaris or not, that it runs on non-Sun x86 hardware.

So anyone who views themselves as criticizing Linux is really missing, I think, some common sense, because what you're in essence doing is trying to criticize creativity. > 4) Java: Ok there is some interest in Java, but Sun has consistently shown how incapable it is making money off it. I have worked with Sun for many years, and I can categorically say that until very recently, the mere mention of MS in Sun circles was enough to be branded a pariah. The answer, Schwartz believes, is his site, whose simple interface enables easy information tracking and sharing. Scott McNealy Net Worth. Advertise | I’m scouring the company right now to drive two basic goals. He was full of personality until his departure, which he announced in a haiku tweet, but he acknowledges that there wasn't much he could have done to reverse the slide that eventually led to Oracle's 2009 deal to buy the company for $7.4 billion. Here, the issue of licensing becomes important.

In the wake of the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2000, the company has struggled to fend off new competitors at the low end of the computer server marketplace and has been criticized for having been slow to recognize the threat of the freely available Linux operating system. One minute he was walking on stage in a penguin suit (really, he did) to show his love for enterprise Linux, and then he’s saying that Linux is a toy for hobbiests and “has no place in IT”. It's also important to ask at this point whether Schwartz ever really ran Sun in the first place. There was a time that Sun decided to stop releasing Solaris for x86, but that lasted less than a year if I recall. "And that is reflected in many things, whether it's where I choose to live or the company I work for or the ideals to which I aspire.". You can swap a hardware platform, you can move out an Intel 32-bit system and move in an AMD system and do it over a weekend. 69 fixes were delivered already today, for instance: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/search.do?process=1&category=&subcatego…. Well, the biggest companies in the world are the ones that serve commodity markets. There’s no question in my mind that entering this next phase of the adoption of the Internet there will be ample opportunities for acquisition. And because the demand for the types of innovation that Sun builds will only increase as long as we’re on this planet. But if they can’t, my allegiance remains with Linux. One year ago this month, Sun announced a strategic alliance with Advanced Micro Devices to deliver Opteron-based Sun Fire systems. I was with one customer last week who told me they had bought a few thousand IBM BladeCenter xSeries systems, and their server utilization was about 6%. Johnathon see’s this, and has made changes. One final thought. I’m not sure how you do that. Just look through osnews.com diatribes that reach slashdot like conspiracy theories about some sort of ‘axis of evil’ consisting of Microsoft, Sun and SCO. We should all revel in that. It costs $5 per month, or $48 annually per person being monitored, and there's a one-year free trail for anyone who signs up before March 15. When you do, the net result of that is that you free up cash. What advantage does open-source give them? In Solaris this stuff just works. You work on AIX – do you think we’d be seeing the same number of patches as Linux if IBM were to open up AIX? So we’re going to invest in those folks to make sure that as we build and buy new innovations, we’ll have a channel that can deliver them to the marketplace. When SUN was headed by McNealy, I had no consideration for Open Solaris. The AR technology has been developed by Valis, while the AI platform is powered by the Oracle Digital Assistant platform. why slam him for that! JonathanSchwartzJonathan Schwartz, 40, newly named Sun Microsystems chief executive, jokes that he differs from mentor Scott McNealy in tonsorial style (Schwartz has a ponytail) and beverage habits (he drinks wine, not beer).
The companies that have exited innovation in the past five years, they are erstwhile competitors who are now becoming our partners. Forbes: How are you different from Scott? But doing R&D to support chip work when [Sun Chief Architect and co-founder] Andy Bechtolsheim says that Opteron is great stuff--do you need all that R&D? Terms of Use | Hearing Australia strikes digital transformation deal with DXC. Absolutely, yes. Sticks and stones.
Mr. Schwartz, who was a consultant for McKinsey & Company and chief executive of a small software company before landing at Sun a decade ago, comes to the role of business strategist naturally. why slam him for that! Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, and since that time Oracle's hardware and software engineers have worked side-by-side to build fully integrated systems and optimized solutions designed to achieve performance levels that are unmatched in the industry.

I hope they don’t fragment the development community as I fear they might, because that wouldn’t be a good thing for users. Second, we’re going to be looking as a consolidator across the marketplace and identifying not only organic investments but inorganic investments to create long-term opportunity. We’re doing that to drive simplicity. Was the StorageTek acquisition just about generating cash through renewal revenues? Of the 5 million Solaris licenses we’ve distributed in the past 12 months, nearly 70% have been to customers running Dell, HP and IBM hardware--dominantly onto HP hardware. "My legacy isn't where the stock is today," Mr. McNealy said in a telephone interview on Monday.