Notes from the Scott McNealy Keynote. May have errors etc…

Scott McNealy Keynote Reading a newspaper “Company says it generates revenue, but analysts wonder” – throws newspaper over shoulde “Well what do they know” Generally the press is getting better though. “Mum I’m in Playboy!” An analysts article was published in playboy about CEO payrates. “Now you all have an excuse to go out and buy playboy. I’ll be happy to sign any copy you want anywhere in the magazine”. About a 30% growth rate of Java programmers. Community is growing well. “We’ve underhyped Java at every step of the way.” Everyone claimed they were overhyping Java. “Is Sun the right company to drive Java technology?” “Someone’s got to be in charge or noone is.” “Are we (Sun) going to make it?” “We are rock solid” more than $7 Billion in the bank. Great product line, huge intellectual property, brands that are fairly well known. Sun is gaining share – in the last 3 quarters (not the one ending tomorrow) but in the march, sep, and dec quarters, we grew our server buys 22% year of year. Pay attention to the June figures. This is all sparc unit growth. Fujitsu wil develop a new generation SPARC system in mid-206. 32 hardware thread microprocessor due from Texas Hardware soon. Talking about the Microsoft agreement. Only two communities left, Java and .Net – only two with 4+ million, only two gaining volume and development share. Phase 2 of partnership is about Java and .Net webservices integration. The JVM and the CLR ar enot that different – can probably make them integrate very well. “We are not abandoning the community” If you ever see the “Inside Jack” video floating around the net, download it and send me a copy – brilliant satire of how the MS & Sun agreement came about. Sun was the first company on the entire planet to base it’s product on OpenSource. Sun backed TCP/IP against IBM token ring and MS LanMan and won. Sun is the number 2 donator of source code to the community. Over half of the JSRs are led by non-Sun folk. 55 different organizations led JSRs. Invited MS and Redhat to join the JCP. Called them the delinquents of the class. “This is my open letter” Scott suggests entering “DB2” into the Sun “opensourcing machine”. Project Looking Glass is now released under GPL. The Phantom gaming service was just announced. The first platform to support java. All games delivered on demand – just plug into any braodband connection. To be released in November. Hardware given away to anyone who signs a 2 year subscription contract. 3 Statements: Where’s the outgrage on stock options? Viruses? Where’s the outrage on viruses? 300 billion dollar cost of worm and trojan viruses – they’re Microsoft viruses. if you write a proper Java app. 1.75 billion Java devices out there – can anyone name a Java virus? Sun calls IBM to start donating it’s own IP to the community. stop writing letters to the number one donator of source code in the commercial software industry and start outsourcing your own stuff.