Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
"All the big announcements have been made. I’m the warm-up act for James Gosling," quipped former Sun CEO (now Sun Chairman) Scott McNealy on the final day of JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. "This is what post-CEO life is like!” he added, wryly, as he announced nothing more exhilarating than the winner of “Bike to Work Week.”
But McNealy was still able, wholly justifiably, to bask in the reflected glory that is Java. And so he did, with complete humility and with his characteristic zeal and zest for helping the technology future arrive more quickly apparently undiminished.
Plus he was still able to make the audience laugh.
"There are some changes going on, he said, understatedly, before adding with a grin in the direction of new CEO Jonathan Schwartz: "All of us in the leadership group are desparately trying to grow a pony tail."
McNealy then presented one of his now-ritual Top Ten Lists. "Here are the Top 10 things about not being CEO," he said:
10. I don’t have to apologize for things I say to Wall St. Jonathan does.
9. I’m no longer on the 'Most Overpaid CEO' List.
8. I get to just say, "See Jonathan on that."
7. I get to read hockey news without guilt.
6. I need to shave even less often.
5. I don't have to sign the SoX report any more.
4. I have someone to blame now.
3. I can sell my last business suit.
2. Jonathan doesn't play golf, but there are still many Sun customers who play golf, so...
1. My new office is VERY close to the men’s room.
McNealy then did his usual annual recap of where Java is - "because the numbers are stunning," as he put it, concentrating on the fact that 3 million users are being added to the network a week, due to the proliferation of devices.
He spoke of the new world of “tele-everything” – of home shipping, tele-banking, telemedicine and so on. "Here is the problem though," he noted: "If we add 3M phones to the Internet every week, 3 out of 4 will be the wrong side of the Digital Divide."
That divide was in fact a huge economic opportunity, McNealy argued. "As a corporation, we think that Java-enabled technology will help eliminate the digital divide."
Thin clients were the way forward, he continued, for reasons of manpower and physical (electrical) if nothing else:
"There aren’t enough sysadmins to handle 6 billion PCs - there’s just not enough power, it has to be solved through web services, through thin clients, through network computing."
One of his calls to action, with which he closed his 20 minutes: "Besides growing and making money, we have to get everyone on the network."
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SYS-CON Australia News Desk commented on 22 May 2006
'All the big announcements have been made. I'm the warm-up act for James Gosling,' quipped former Sun CEO Scott McNealy on the final day of JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. 'This is what post-CEO life is like!' he added, wryly, as he announced the winner of 'Bike to Work Week.' But he was still able, wholly justifiably, to bask in the reflected glory that is Java. And so he did, with complete humility and with his customary zeal and zest for helping the technology future arrive more quickly apparently undiminished.
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SYS-CON India News Desk commented on 22 May 2006
'All the big announcements have been made. I'm the warm-up act for James Gosling,' quipped former Sun CEO Scott McNealy on the final day of JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. 'This is what post-CEO life is like!' he added, wryly, as he announced the winner of 'Bike to Work Week.' But he was still able, wholly justifiably, to bask in the reflected glory that is Java. And so he did, with complete humility and with his customary zeal and zest for helping the technology future arrive more quickly apparently undiminished.
I certainly support the notion of a socioeconomic neutral web (I think that's what it already is), but I think we need to be careful in efforts to "manage" something into the web that doesn't exist. For if you assume that the web -- by nature of its users -- is tilted in any way, then you're setting yourself up for bad strategy in the long run.
Moreover, you're playing right into the hands of the status quo, people who would like nothing more than to "help" the tilting of the web. The Telcos, for example, could easily satisfy the wants of the digital divide activists, but at what price?
Given that Schwartz was head of a tiny startup that got bought by Sun awhile ago, I'd hope that he remembers something about innovating.
I'd also like to think that he remembers the tech that Sun bought when they bought 'his' company and buried.
Probably not too relevant now, but the NeXTStep apps were best of breed at the time, and ran well on 25MHz machines. Perhaps Java could take some direction?
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There is no money in Java and not much future in Sun's other technologies. I posted this elseswere but it bears repeating.
My 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 and passion into the next big thing, the one thing that will solve the nastiest problem in the computer industry today: 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 most dramatic change in computing since the days of Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace. Don't say you weren't warned. ahahaha...
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dlawson commented on 19 May 2006
Scott's best comment came out when MS got ready to ship Win 3.11:
"Putting Windows on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple."
(road apples are horse poop, in case you didn't get the connection.)
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neonprimetime commented on 19 May 2006
A selection of the best Scott McNealy quotes:
"When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment."
"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."
"Shut down some of the bullshit the government is spending money on and use it to buy all the Microsoft stock. Then put all their intellectual property in the public domain. Free Windows for everyone! Then we could just bronze Gates, turn him into a statue and stick him in front of the Commerce Department."
"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."
"It's the good guys versus the bad guys, and the good guys are winning."
"W2K (Windows 2000) will be a bigger disaster than Y2K."
"A giant hairball." [About Windows NT]
"The Evil Empire." [guess who]
"The beast from Redmond." [yup]
"Anyone heard any good monopolist jokes lately?"
"Ballmer and Butthead" [Ballmer and you-know-who]
".Not, .Not Yet and .Nut" [Microsoft's .Net strategy]
SYS-CON Australia News Desk wrote: 'All the big announcements have been made. I'm the warm-up act for James Gosling,' quipped former Sun CEO Scott McNealy on the final day of JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. 'This is what post-CEO life is like!' he added, wryly, as he announced the winner of 'Bike to Work Week.' But he was still able, wholly justifiably, to bask in the reflected glory that is Java. And so he did, with complete humility and with his customary zeal and zest for helping the technology future arrive more quickly apparently undiminished.
SYS-CON India News Desk wrote: 'All the big announcements have been made. I'm the warm-up act for James Gosling,' quipped former Sun CEO Scott McNealy on the final day of JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. 'This is what post-CEO life is like!' he added, wryly, as he announced the winner of 'Bike to Work Week.' But he was still able, wholly justifiably, to bask in the reflected glory that is Java. And so he did, with complete humility and with his customary zeal and zest for helping the technology future arrive more quickly apparently undiminished.
Terry Heaton wrote: I certainly support the notion of a socioeconomic neutral web (I think that's what it already is), but I think we need to be careful in efforts to "manage" something into the web that doesn't exist. For if you assume that the web -- by nature of its users -- is tilted in any way, then you're setting yourself up for bad strategy in the long run.
Moreover, you're playing right into the hands of the status quo, people who would like nothing more than to "help" the tilting of the web. The Telcos, for example, could easily satisfy the wants of the digital divide activists, but at what price?
rthille wrote: Given that Schwartz was head of a tiny startup that got bought by Sun awhile ago, I'd hope that he remembers something about innovating.
I'd also like to think that he remembers the tech that Sun bought when they bought 'his' company and buried.
Probably not too relevant now, but the NeXTStep apps were best of breed at the time, and ran well on 25MHz machines. Perhaps Java could take some direction?
--
MOBE2001 wrote: There is no money in Java and not much future in Sun's other technologies. I posted this elseswere but it bears repeating.
My 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 and passion into the next big thing, the one thing that will solve the nastiest problem in the computer industry today: 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 most dramatic change in computing since the days of Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace. Don't say you weren't warned. ahahaha...
dlawson wrote: Scott's best comment came out when MS got ready to ship Win 3.11:
"Putting Windows on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple."
(road apples are horse poop, in case you didn't get the connection.)
neonprimetime wrote: A selection of the best Scott McNealy quotes:
"When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment."
"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."
"Shut down some of the bullshit the government is spending money on and use it to buy all the Microsoft stock. Then put all their intellectual property in the public domain. Free Windows for everyone! Then we could just bronze Gates, turn him into a statue and stick him in front of the Commerce Department."
"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."
"It's the good guys versus the bad guys, and the good guys are winning."
"W2K (Windows 2000) will be a bigger disaster than Y2K."
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"All the big announcements have been made. I’m the warm-up act for James Gosling," quipped former Sun CEO (now Sun Chairman) Scott McNealy on the final day of JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. "This is what post-CEO life is like!” he added, wryly, as he announced nothing more exhilarating than the winner of “Bike to Work Week.” 
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The companies said Wednesday...
A Tel Aviv start-up called Porticor that’s just hit the radar says it’s got a way to secure the cloud, any cloud. Fancy that, a trustworthy cloud.
And Porticor delivers its data encryption solution to IaaS and PaaS users through the cloud in minutes. Fancy that.
It’s supposed...
"The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self move...
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