Jonathan Schwartz Quotes (39 Quotes)

Today is the culmination of a tremendous amount of research and development, ... trying to fundamentally understand where we went wrong as a company, where we went off the rails, and how we can get back on the rails.

Our emergence in the industry standard marketplace may get to the point where we are driving that marketplace rather than being driven by it.

Proprietary technology relegates you either to a niche or to the ditch. We're growing our market opportunity by steadfastly open sourcing the entirety of our software portfolio -- from the Solaris OS to Java developer tools -- and now we're taking the next step by open sourcing the world's most innovative microprocessor under the GPL. Giving our customers more choice and driving community innovation expands our economic opportunity and is forcing our competitors to sit up and take notice -- we are back on offense.

Sun Microsystems is built on the principles of openness and innovation. We've contributed more code to the open source community than any other company on earth and we're committed to furthering its future. I believe that we in the technology industry have a responsibility to remove the barriers to participation on the network and help fuel innovation and economic opportunity -- and I believe open source helps us reach that goal.

Clearly it's in my company's best interest to have 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa join the network,

I want to see most of the planet online.

Microsoft has a business model and is not merely propagating Passport as a hobby,

We intend to supply more than simple investment, by bringing to bear the experience and perspective that's put Sun in a leadership position on the Internet, ... We're looking forward to promoting the success of companies aligned with Sun's vision, and broadening our strategic portfolio.

OpenOffice.org is on a path toward being the most popular office suite the world has ever seen providing users with safety, choice, and an opportunity to participate in one of the broadest community efforts the Internet has ever seen,

Until today, the thought was that a move to an industry-standard platform meant a move toward hot, inefficient servers, with weak management and a hodgepodge of system components. We're here to call an end to that era. The move away from proprietary systems now holds the promise of increasing performance, decreasing power bills and consolidating data center creep - and Sun's legendary innovation puts us at the forefront of driving and claiming that opportunity.

Its about creating a marketplace and creating a community and creating the technologies,

The industry generally falls into two camps Those who support what we're up to and others who want to collect a fee

Shift-work sleep disorder is when people who work night shifts or rotating shifts have problems with being tired and sleepy during their night shift andor problems sleeping during the day. This affects their productivity it affects their quality of life.

The majority of the applications that will drive the next wave of innovation will be services, not applications that run on the desktop. The real innovation is occurring in the network and the network services,

Open source is not just about software. It's also going to be about hardware, and we're going to be the company that's driving it.

We'll see if we can make progress there.

The majority of the world will first experience the Internet through their handset,

It is an honor to take the reins of this great company from one of the industry's true visionaries.

This is an inexorable shift in the marketplace. Open source is not just about software. It's also about hardware. You can't create a community without contributions. You can't write press releases to say you like open source. If you like open source, wade on in and make contributions.

We don't own 100 per cent of the IP in Solaris. This is a different platform. We own 100 per cent of the IP that goes into it. We can faithfully deliver it into the free marketplace under a license that promotes freedom and choice.

That's the next wave of innovation not the Web page but delivering services through the Internet. This is not your father's Internet.

Most of us are only tuned in to distant stations where all kinds of things are happening to other people. We listen through the static to their heartbreaks as if we were in some well-protected receiving chamber.

What I hear from chief information officers from all over the world is that 70 a barrel for oil is having an impact on their business,

Stay tuned on the Red Hat-Sun relationship. We think there's ample opportunity to work together out there.

My team is going to be more focused on growing the business, finding new customers, seeking the new adoptions, finding the new opportunities around the world.

I think Scott will go to his grave as a Sun employee.

It's time the technology industry took a stand -- tripling your datacenter performance shouldn't mean tripling your power bill and needing more coal-fired power plants,

I don't think doing good for the planet has to be inconsistent with doing good for our shareholders.

There is no single individual who has created more jobs around the world than you.

The principal difference you're going to see is we've been focused on stabilizing the customer base as well as really driving into the RD to make sure we have the innovations that allow us to grow. My team is going to be a little more focused on growing the business.

It just continues to grow in value, not because Sun is standing on top of it, saying, 'Here's where we go next.' It's because we have a community of folks,

We view the opportunity as planetary in scope. Businesses are going to be investing in what we've got.

We're going to be making sure we're aligning the organization for growth.

We already assume we have competitive products. But then there's our top line revenue, margin expenses, cost structure, and if we manage those right, we will yield greater (profit) margins.

In the last few years we've completely overhauled our product line and approach to the marketplace. Innovation is the fuel that drives competitive advantage and we'll continue to deliver innovative new products and business models that give our customers the edge they need to win.

We distributed a bunch of free servers to new customers, just to get them exposed to Sun. It had the desired impact - on average, the 'return' on the investment of a free server was an average purchase order of 15 systems. Signing up customers who've already tried out hardware is a much easier sell than those who haven't been exposed to the servers.

I am incredibly excited by what the future holds for Sun and the opportunity to continue working with Scott, and the rest of the management team, to help Sun attain its financial and operational goals.

The feeds and speeds of the T1 chips will be interesting to techies, of course. But Sun is trying to take a higher road to try to peddle its Niagara gear. It's time the technology industry took a stand--tripling your datacenter performance shouldn't mean tripling your power bill and needing more coal fired power plants, ... It's becoming more obvious by the day that extreme efficiency is good for the environment, and good for business--there are proof points everywhere, from hybrid auto companies that can't keep up with demand to fuel efficient aircraft dominating the marketplace. Customers want this same Eco-responsibility in their datacenters.

As volume economics take hold, the days of proprietary hardware and software are coming to an end -- yielding cost savings and efficiencies for customers that can dispense with one-off solutions, and revenue opportunities for Sun's open standard products.