It is an honor to take the reins of this great company from one of the industry's true visionaries.
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Proprietary technology relegates you either to a niche or to the ditch. We're growing our market opportunity by steadfastly open sourcing the entirety of our software portfolio -- from the Solaris OS to Java developer tools -- and now we're taking the next step by open sourcing the world's most innovative microprocessor under the GPL. Giving our customers more choice and driving community innovation expands our economic opportunity and is forcing our competitors to sit up and take notice -- we are back on offense.Jonathan Schwartz
We distributed a bunch of free servers to new customers, just to get them exposed to Sun. It had the desired impact - on average, the 'return' on the investment of a free server was an average purchase order of 15 systems. Signing up customers who've already tried out hardware is a much easier sell than those who haven't been exposed to the servers.
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We view the opportunity as planetary in scope. Businesses are going to be investing in what we've got.
Jonathan Schwartz
It just continues to grow in value, not because Sun is standing on top of it, saying, 'Here's where we go next.' It's because we have a community of folks,
Jonathan Schwartz
The feeds and speeds of the T1 chips will be interesting to techies, of course. But Sun is trying to take a higher road to try to peddle its Niagara gear. It's time the technology industry took a stand--tripling your datacenter performance shouldn't mean tripling your power bill and needing more coal fired power plants, ... It's becoming more obvious by the day that extreme efficiency is good for the environment, and good for business--there are proof points everywhere, from hybrid auto companies that can't keep up with demand to fuel efficient aircraft dominating the marketplace. Customers want this same Eco-responsibility in their datacenters.
Jonathan Schwartz
Most of us are only tuned in to distant stations where all kinds of things are happening to other people. We listen through the static to their heartbreaks as if we were in some well-protected receiving chamber.
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