Q&A with Sun CEO Scott McNealy
Following is an edited transcript of an interview with Scott McNealy, Chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc.
IDGNS: Sun has made a lot of interesting changes in the last year. What has been a real success?
Scott McNealy: I'll tell you what we've done: We have lowered the cost model big time in the company; we have improved operating contribution significantly. I think we're on the right track with utility computing, with our community development strategy. I think our Opteron story is very exciting, our chip multithreading story is going to break here very soon and that's going to be very exciting. Open sourcing Solaris is a big deal. The momentum with Java is a story that people are now just taking for granted, but it is a stunning achievement.
IDGNS: But what do you think will be the big hit for Sun in 2005?
McNealy: Well imagine we hadn't done Java 10 years ago, where do you think Sun would be today? It would be all Windows. We'd be done. If people aren't writing Java Web services, they're writing to .Net. If they write to .Net they write to Windows. If they write to Windows, they don't write to Sun equipment.
So people say well how come you didn't monetize Java. Wait a second, there's US$7.4 billion cash in the bank since we launched Java. Just because we didn't charge for it
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