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- Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech innovations
- E10K? Open SourceWow, an all this time I thought that the E10K came from Cray after the merger with SGI. The spin that Sun completed it is true, but it wasn't SUN culture of DNA.http://www.cray-cyber.org/systems/E10kborn.phpAnd who knew that Sun created open source, rather than struggling against it until they lost.The...
- Tags: Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Inc., E10K
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech innovations
- In what could be one of his last big appearances as the leader of Sun, Scott McNealy named his list of the top 10 innovations that have come out of Sun Microsystems. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Innovation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scott McNealy, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive pay
- The breakdown in talks between IBM and Sun came down to a couple of key disputes, one of which involved millions of dollars in payouts to Sun executives, according a Bloomberg report that cites unnamed sources. CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Chairman Scott McNealy each have contracts that...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Scott McNealy, Bloomberg L.P., IBM Corp., Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let go? Should he?
- The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let go? Should he?Scott McNealy is worm ridden filthHe only cares about two things.HimselfHis holy war against MicrosoftHe is a certifiable nutjob who should have been put into an institution long ago. Hey Scott, you lost, Bill Gates won. Take that to your grave scum...
- Tags: Servers, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Arg, Scott McNealy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let go? Should he?
- IBM's acquisition of Sun Microsystems was shot down as its board split into two camps---one for the deal led by CEO Jonathan Schwartz and one against led by Chairman Scott McNealy---and the consensus appears to be that McNealy has a bad case of Yahoo-itis. Meanwhile, McNealy is also bordering on...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy, IBM Corp., Scott, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Sarbanes-Oxley, Corporate Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- McNealy's back and Obama's got him
- When McNealy says he's doing a paper advocating open source, understand that it is actually a vendor white paper being sent to a big customer, nothing more. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Scott McNealy, McNealy, Baker, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Scott McNealy far from retired
- Scott McNealy far from retiredMcNealy = MoronMcNealy is without a doubt one of the most pathetic CEOs in modern history. Hey Scott, are you still railing about HTML mail, simply because the Sun mail client didn't support HTML years after every other mail client did? How about that $500 million...
- Tags: Games, Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- H-1B debate: Immigrants key to tech startups
- Indian and Chinese immigrants are a huge part of the technology startup story. Everybody knows this intuitively. Now a study from UC Berkeley and Duke researchers finds that fully 25 percent of tech and engineering companies launched since 1995 had at least one foreign-born founder. According to the study, immigrant-founded...
- Tags: immigrant, H-1B, Congress, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Scott McNealy reveals the biggest challenge on the planet
- Scott McNealy reveals the biggest challenge on the planetMessage has been deleted.
- Tags: Scott McNealy
- Discussion threads 2006-09-20
- Scott McNealy reveals the biggest challenge on the planet
- Quote of the day: Scott McNealy, current chairman and former CEO piñata at Sun (pictured below with AMD Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz at the AMD Global Vision Conference: "Who’s who, what’s what and who gets access to what is the biggest challenge on the...
- Tags: Scott McNealy
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Sun looking to move agencies to its grid
- The new chairman of Sun Federal, Sun Microsystems' federal sales arm, wants to convince federal agencies to buy network services like they buy telecom services. “Each organization has built its own — I call them Frankenstein data centers — often using best-of-breed or obsolete technology,” he said. “I believe there’s...
- Tags: agency, Scott McNealy, grid, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- A few minutes with Scott McNealy
- A few minutes with Scott McNealyScott and sharingWorth noting, Scott is one of those leaders who understands headcount isn't always the best way to determine a company's capacity to innovate and furthermore, he values sharing.Even if his vision of sharing isn't exactly aligned with Creative Commons thinking, it's still way...
- Tags: Strategy, vision, Scott McNealy
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
- A few minutes with Scott McNealy
- After Friday's keynote address at JavaOne, former Sun CEO Scott McNealy chatted with a handful of reporters and analysts about his plans for the future and his vision for Sun going forward. What follows is a partial transcript of that event, as fast as I could type it. Any errors...
- Tags: Jonathan
- Blog posts 2006-05-20
- McNealy: Google opaque friend, IBM top rival
- Following the morning keynote at JavaOne, Scott McNealy discussed his new role at Sun and took a few questions from the press. He half-joked that he was thrilled not be CEO. "It's a temporary thing I took over 22 years ago," he said. In reference to new CEO Jonathan Schwartz,...
- Tags: Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Google Inc., IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-05-19
- Live from San Francisco, Scott McNealy
- Live from San Francisco, Scott McNealyMcNealy lost his charmHe was 10 times more funny before the M$ payout.I think actually that's the reason he stepped down since his main duty has been nilled by that settlement.He's to tired and compromised to fight another battle.
- Tags: Litigation, Scott McNealy
- Discussion threads 2006-05-19
- JavaOne: McNealy takes the stage
- Sun Chairman Scott McNealy took the stage at JavaOne on its final day. He came out wisecracking. "All in the leadership [at Sun] is desparately trying to grow a pony tail, pointing to new pony-tailed CEO Jonathan Schwartz. The pony tail CEO Jonathan Schwartz and former CEO, now Chairman Scott...
- Tags: Java, Scott McNealy
- Blog posts 2006-05-19
- Photos: McNealy takes a swing
- Sun's Scott McNealy shows off his golf prowess at a Symantec customer conference.
- Tags: swing, Scott McNealy, Symantec Corp., conference, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Image galleries 2006-05-09
- Say what? A look back at McNealy zingers
- Say what? A look back at McNealy zingersGreat stuff!Gonna miss this guy!scott mcnealyScott Mcnealy:The Ken Olsen of the 21st Century....He was too busy being cute to realize he had become outdated VAX/VMS= SPARC/SOLARIS = DEADMcNealy - ismsYeah, great stuff! I especially liked this one. He was right...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Scott McNealy
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Sun's acorn remains close to the tree
- The anticipated, and some would say long overdue (yet perhaps too soon?), segue of Jonathan Schwartz into the CEO position at Sun Microsystems is timed to bump the stock price amid still lackluster financial results. Longtime CEO and co-founder Scott McNealy retains his chairmanship of the board, and successfully managed...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- McNealy on Schwartz: I've been working pretty hard to get him into this role
- During the conference call with the media, former Sun CEO and now Chairman Scott McNealy praised his replacement Jonathan Schwartz, saying that he had worked "pretty hard to get him into this role," spotting his talent and watching him through seven jobs at Sun in the last 10 years. "He...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
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