I wasn't going to hand someone a falling dagger. We took all the hits and got this thing sorted out. |
I've had a pretty good couple of weeks, I don't know about you all, |
If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father. |
In 1982, we were just a group of young guys who believed The Network is the Computer. Today, I'm proud to say this principle still guides Sun's business and is driving many of today's prominent innovations, trends and business models. It's great to be back on stage with this group of big minds and talk about the history and evolution of Silicon Valley, the future of the network, and what this all means as we enter a new age of participation on the global network. |
Internet technology spending is highly effective in driving productivity. Companies know that if they hold back now, their competitors are going to get in and invest, and these companies will end up as the high-cost producers. They can't afford that, |
It's a natural for these two companies to work well together, |
It's absolutely stifling what Microsoft does when they acquire a little company and bundle that technology into Windows and eliminate all further innovation outside of Microsoft, in that particular area. |
It's all about the data, gang; it's not about the storage. The world is changing, we are moving from the era of the Internet age into the participation age, where everyone is on the Internet and everyone is a publisher, an editor. |
It's explosive. I don't want to predict how big this is going to be. |
It's going to get scarier if we don't come up with technology and rules to protect appropriately privacy and secure the data, and the most important asset we have is obviously the data on people--our customers and employees and partners. And if we can't protect that, people are not going to go online. |
It's more bad news for the competition. |
It's not just workstations or servers that are getting hooked to the Internet, but everything with a digital or electronic heartbeat, |
Janet Reno and Joel Klein have one heck of a case against Microsoft that's going to make the Nixon tapes and Clinton video look tame. |
Jonathan and I are highly aligned. |
Jonathan has earned the admiration and respect of our 37,900 employees, our customers and partners, and the industry as a whole. He is the ideal leader to take the helm as Sun's chief executive officer. |