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A brief summary: This is not an excerpt from Brief - those ended last week, and next week we'll start the long and boring slog through the second volume in the series: Business Information Technology: Foundations and Culture. Its purpose, where Brief is addressed to top level executives and Defen is intended for...; Tags: Information Technology, MySQL, Jonathan Schwartz, Open Source, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft ... but not Oracle?: Sun announced today that it has completed its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL and plans to continue making open source acquisitions as opportunities arise. "Open source is really in Sun's DNA," said Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, (to the right in...; Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Sun completes MySQL purchase; Eyes more open source acquisitions: Sun said Tuesday that it has completed the purchase of MySQL for $1 billion and CEO Jonathan Schwartz indicated the company plans to keep shopping for open source acquisitions. "Open source is really in the DNA of Sun," said Schwartz on a conference call to trumpet MySQL...; Tags: Acquisition, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Leave Jonathan Schwartz alone!: Snark alert. Amanda McPherson, marketing director at the Linux Foundation, has taken apart Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz' arguments for Open Solaris on her blog. At his company's Global Summit, Schwartz defended Sun's open source strategy and said he will be targeting "Web 2.0" companies...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-19
Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz on CIO / CTO differences: Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz on CIO / CTO differencesFundamental DifferenceThere is a fundamental difference between an executive who's focus is ensuring the company's product is solid and one who's focus is on enabling others to deliver the company's product.Risk adverse and outdatedSounds like CIOs are risk adverse and outdated. ...; Tags: Jonathan Schwartz, Sounds Like, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-12-18

Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz on CIO / CTO differences: Blogger Jonathan Schwartz, who also happens to be CEO of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA), has written an insightful post describing issues raised by Chief Information Officers CIO and Chief Technology Officers CTO during meetings with Sun. His comments reveal distinct differences between the two groups. ...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Sun fights back with patents of their own against NetApp: Jonathan Schwartz is not spoiling for a fight, but he's not shying away from one either. That's the takeaway message in today's blog entry from Sun's spunky CEO. On September 5th, Network Appliances filed a lawsuit against Sun claiming that ZFS infringed on seven of its patents....; Tags: Software, Patent, Storage Device, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, NetApp, ZFS, Jonathan, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2007-10-24
Is open source the stock flavor of the month?: In a bid to boost its stock price, Sun Microsystems changed its ticker symbol Monday to JAVA. The market's reaction? That's fine, kid, here's a quarter. From the time of the announcement on Thursday through its Tuesday peak shares gained about 25 cents. That may not sound...; Tags: Open Source, Stock, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-09-12
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: Consumers, not IT, driving markets: Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: Consumers, not IT, driving marketsSo, growth is going to happen.And Sun has avoided gaining revenue on that growth by preventing sales of worthwhile technologies.Why? because with all that money around, Sun must receive some of it. Somehow.Quoting:“It’s not a guarantee, since we offer free and...; Tags: Strategy, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology; Discussion threads 2007-08-29
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: Consumers, not IT, driving markets: Sun is holding an Emerging Markets Summit on its Menlo Park, CA campus. CEO Jonathan Schwartz led off the event with this statement: "The Internet is the most powerful social utility the world has ever seen." The "social utility" phrase is part of Sun's new view of...; Tags: Phone, Information Technology, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-08-29
To Linus it's not just business: Paula's piece on Linus Torvalds not doing LinuxWorld hit me at a peculiar time.I was trying to reconcile Sun's current rah-rah support for open source with Linus' posts which continue to show his distrustÂ of the company, leading to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz' famous dinner invitation.The answer is simple. Linus is...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Programmer, Linus Torvalds, Paula, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-08-10
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: CIOs will hunt me down to pay me money: Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: CIOs will hunt me down to pay me moneyA legend in his own mindCurrent Global OS usage by OneStat puts Windows at around 97%, Mac around 2.7% and Linux 0.3%. Hmmm, I don't seem to see Solaris use or where their 9 million downloads went. ...; Tags: Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, Jonathan Schwartz, Paul, Sun Microsystems Inc., kind-of security, Java, security, Sun Solaris, Linux; Discussion threads 2007-08-09
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: CIOs will hunt me down to pay me money: Matt Asay has an interview with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on news.com. Schwartz explains how having millions of downloads of Sun's Solaris and Java translates into bounty for the company and its shareholders.Asay: But how do you translate interest and volume into customers? Downloads are nice, but how do you...; Tags: CIO, Brand, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Matt Asay, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-08-09
What's the best defense for open source?: The OSBC is in San Francisco this week, worrying over defending against Microsoft patent claims.Our own Ed Burnette was intrigued by hints in Jonathan Schwartz' blog this week that Sun Microsystems might help defend Ubuntu and Red Hat, if push came to shove.Interesting given that Sun isn't even a member...; Tags: Applications, Distributions, documentation, Enterprise Policy, Events, Implementations, Legal, Microsoft, Patents, Strategy, Sun Microsystems; Blog posts 2007-05-23
Ian Skerrett: Eclipse is not the fungus among us (us=Java community): In response to my last post about how rich internet applications running on mobile and embedded devices is the marketplace over which Sun, Adobe, and Microsoft will stop at nothing to win (a "deathmatch" I called it), Ian Skerrett who runs marketing for the Eclipse Foundation questioned my choice of...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-05-16
Sun's Schwartz: Don't forget that Java is open sourced: Since the conclusion of last week's JavaOne event in San Francisco, I've been e-mailing back and forth with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about Java and the deathmatch that clearly looms ahead between it and competing cross-platform runtime environments from Adobe and Microsoft (Flash and Silverlight, respectively). Between the relevance...; Tags: General, Legal, Open Source, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-05-16
Sun's Schwartz at Startup Camp: Learn from users who outpace biggest IT budgets: To kick off Startup Camp yesterday, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz delivered a short opening keynote that we captured on video tape where he talked about the greenfield opportunities that startups have to make technology into a competitive weapon. He basically advised startups to be thinking in that way -- to...; Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Video, Web technology; Blog posts 2007-05-08
Schwartz and Sun going all-in on open source: Business Week reports that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is preparing to announce that Suns Solaris operating system will soon be available under the GPL. With the decision on GPL Java already made, its clear that, in poker parlance, Schwartz is going "all-in" on the open source concept. Schwartz first hinted...; Tags: Sun Microsystems, Strategy, Hardware, GPL, General; Blog posts 2007-04-30
Back channel communications and blogging: Last week a guy named Ben Rockwood, whom many of you will know as a key player at Joyent, published a personal blog harshly critical of Suns hardware and services delivery process. His title: Getting Fed Up With Sun: Cant Get Systems, Breaking...; Tags: Sun, General; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Penfield-Jackson's revenge? For Silverlight (and Microsoft) to succeed, must Microsoft break itself up?: By now, you cant have missed the news about how Microsoft has officially given the name "Silverlight" to its Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) platform. If the coverage you read didnt just report the news, it probably drew attention to the theoretical battle that looms between Microsoft and the incumbent Adobe...; Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Entertainment; Blog posts 2007-04-17