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Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]

Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]Bill Joy: Fascist?Bill Joy is asking for the government to require the use of products of venture capital funded companies. The purpose of a venture capital company is to make money lots of it.This is worse than socialism. In socialism, at...

Tags: Vertical industries, Investment, venture capital, Bill Joy, government, video

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Will cheap oil affect green innovation?

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...

Tags: Biofuel, Government, Green Enterprise, Bill Joy, Churchill Club, alternative fuel, gas, oil, innovation

Videos 2009-02-12

Bill Joy's green investing ideas

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, explains how his company came up with 26 "grand challenge areas"--areas where the company, along with Al Gore and his staff, can make the biggest impact on...

Tags: Bill Joy, green, environment, Churchill Club, Al Gore, energy, venture capital

Videos 2009-02-12

Bill Joy: Clean tech bigger than Internet

Bill Joy: Clean tech bigger than InternetRisks of Going GreenDevil's Advocate: One of the possible cautions is economic contraction: if indeed everyone goes green, consumer spending is whittled back, there is less net debt and therefore less credit extended. Sustainability is enhanced, but consumption and overseas currency support (feeding the...

Tags: Corporate communications, Bill Joy, sustainability, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-05-16

Bill Joy: Pandemics, biofuels and the $10 PC

Bill Joy: Pandemics, biofuels and the $10 PCBills blatheringJoy should enlist the aid of freethinking individuals such as ZDNet posters.

Tags: Desktops, Bill Joy, Pandemics, PC

Discussion threads 2006-03-14

Bill Joy's 6 Webs

Bill Joy's 6 WebsWow getting everything rightand being so very ineffective . . . So goes Java.

Tags: Channel management, Bill Joy, Web

Discussion threads 2006-01-04

Bill Joy's 6 Webs

AlwaysOn has an interesting interview with Bill Joy, who co-founded Sun Microsystems back in the day and is currently with famous VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Joy's had a theory for a while now about there being six Webs. In this article he expands on that and moreover...

Tags: Web, Bill Joy

Blog posts 2006-01-02

A history lesson from Bill Joy

A history lesson from Bill JoyBill Joy = the BETTER BillBill Joy is totally correct in that quote. But transferring the monopoly probably SAVED IBM - since their own anti-trust case fizzled out soon after. IBM did the RIGHT thing and learned from its mistakes. Duh!"Personally I expect Linux on...

Tags: Operating systems, Processors, Intel x86, marketing, Now Microsoft, Unix, EPIC, Bill Joy, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2005-06-03

A history lesson from Bill Joy

IBM doesn't offer its own Linux distribution. Nevertheless they've already shown the first Cell based blade server running Linux, and I expect the full line up, from desktop to data center, will too. With that context in mind, I thought something Bill Joy said in a 1999...

Tags: IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2005-06-03

Interview: Bill Joy, the venture capitalist

Interview: Bill Joy, the venture capitalistAlternative energyAs I heard in the past - and Brazil has experience with - Alcohol costs about $2/gallon. This was not feasible to do up until now. Start up those stills - there's cars out there to fill!why this???why not?

Tags: Investment, Bill Joy, venture capital

Discussion threads 2005-04-01

Interview: Bill Joy, the venture capitalist

Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and ex-chief scientist, who retired from the Silicon Valley company in September 2003, is ramping up his career as a VC partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Amazon.com, Google, Netscape, Sun, etc). In a recent interview with News.com, Joy updates his once provocative ideas about the use...

Tags: Joy, Bill Joy

Blog posts 2005-03-31

Additional Resources

Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building

It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...

Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?Define "making money"If a unit in and of itself loses $1 billion a year, but another unit benefits by $$3 billion a year as a result of that unit's existence, do you close it? And how do you make such measures reliably?Example: Internet Explorer.If...

Tags: Workforce management, He/She/It, Microsoft Corp., layoff, future layoff

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Structure101 3.2b361 (Mac)

Structure101 is a rich, interactive, visual environment that provides the user with a deep understanding of their software architecture (or "structure"). Structure101 lets you analyze, measure and control the quality of your software architecture. "Structure101 analyzes codebases to elicit the kind of information that good developers hold in their...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Headway Software Ltd., Structure101, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-10

New Microsoft ad pits Zune Pass vs. Apple iTunes

New Microsoft ad pits Zune Pass vs. Apple iTunesRent 30k tracks for $15 bucks and own 10 of emor buy 15 songs on itunes? I wouldn't use either service but I'd rather have the monthly access to all the music at once. RE: New Microsoft ad pits Zune Pass vs....

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Microsoft Zune, Zune Pass, music, New Microsoft ad, advertisement, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

O'Reilly: Chopra is the Government 2.0 choice for CTO

Is the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the nation's CTO a snub for Silicon Valley? After all, Chopra comes from Virginia state government and CIO Vivek Kundra was most recently in D.C. government. You'll recall in the midst of the speculation about who Obama would pick for these posts, I...

Tags: Job, CTO, Health Care, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interestedI hope IBM know what they're doingIf they play chicken with Sun to get a bargain on the yummy pieces, they still risk throwing Java into years of uncertainty and customer defection. And that'll hurt part of IBMs business...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stock

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

The failure of McNealy's ponytail strategy

The failure of McNealy's ponytail strategyKind of sad.Sun has brought many great technologies to the market so it's sad to see them go. I don't think Sun knew how to sell open source? It's a tricky thing when a company sells software with it's hardware and then gives...

Tags: Utility computing, Blade servers, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, IBM Corp., Second Law, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., strategy

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

Gates discusses next generation of technology with students

Former Microsoft chief executive, Bill Gates, spoke to the University of Waterloo on Saturday to discuss the future of technology, the web and desktop applications, after last visiting the university in 2005. Oh the joy. Unfortunately I couldn't be there to meet him after the lecture as...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-22

Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...

Tags: Innovation, Biofuel, Oil, Video, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-17