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Executive Vice President, Software Group, Sun Microsystems
Jonathan Schwartz is president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems and leads all operational functions at Sun, from product development and worldwide marketing, to global sales and manufacturing. Schwartz is a frequent lecturer at Stanford University and is the only Fortune 500 president to communicate with employees, customers, partners, investors and other community members through a personal web blog. Before joining Sun in 1996, Mr. Schwartz was chief executive officer of Lighthouse Design, Ltd., which Sun acquired. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co., Inc., serving financial services companies. He holds degrees in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University.
August 15, 2006
general / IT Management
I was at Craigslist recently, and heard they were being kicked out of a hosting facility for being widly popular - in order to serve a massively expanding user base, their growing infrastructure was requiring more electricity than the facility could supply.
July 25, 2006
general / IT Management
Please read the Safe Harbor Statement at the bottom of this page - it's important (and beautifully written :). If you've seen the press release , you know we had a good fourth quarter to close out our 2006 fiscal year. This is now my first full quarter as CEO - and I'm pleased with our progress. Our basic restructuring is underway (that's what the big charge was), and we showed some good growth on...
June 16, 2006
general / IT Management
I'd like to offer my heartiest congratulations to the Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu community - what's Ubuntu? The fastest growing GNU/Linux distro out there (and as you know, volume matters ).
June 10, 2006
general / IT Management
In answering the prior question... As you know, computers consume a ton of energy - if you don't work in a datacenter, you may not know what I'm talking about. But you know how your laptop warms your lap? Or your PC heats up your den? Multiply that a few thousand times over, and you have a problem faced by most datacenters - power draw and heat dissipation.
June 8, 2006
IT Management
I was on a plane flight with an executive from the hospitality industry not too long ago, who told me a very interesting story - about the impact of flat panel televisions on hotel room occupancy. According to this exec, flat panel TV's drove down industry occupancy rates. No, seriously. Apparently the space savings and lower power consumption of a flat panel TV (think about it, they're quite a bi...
March 20, 2006
general
Allow me to once again apologize in advance for a lack of brevity. This is one of those blogs you wait a career to write. A few years ago, I was sitting across from a Wall Street CIO, one of many I was visiting in New York.