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The Grill: Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on the hot seat
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| We are preconfigured for the downturn. If you think about the discretionary
| expenses that go into operating a data center, first and foremost there's the
| physical plant itself -- the physical space, the power consumption, the HVAC.
| So all the work that we do around energy efficiency and on getting optimal
| performance -- it's because the environment ends up being a huge operating
| expense for our customers. And to the extent that we can help them lower
| their environmental impact, we're also lowering the economic impact on their
| businesses. That's clearly Job 1.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=315017&source=rss_topic122
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Q&A: Jonathan Schwartz on Sun's open-source business strategy
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| Sun is rising, and open source is the driver behind its rebirth.
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| Jonathan is an executive who sincerely believes in open source as a
| fundamental business-model advantage, and not as a cheap complement to throw
| to the community in order to drive sales of "the real value." It's not a
| marketing gimmick with him. It's a strategy for winning. Jonathan, despite
| wearing a tie when we met, clearly understands the importance of community
| before commercial. Or, rather, he understands that community leads to
| commercial success.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9757417-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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| [Linus:] Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3" Linus is
| quite pessimistic about Sun's commitment to open source: "So
| they want to use Linux resources (_especially_ drivers), but
| they do *not* want to give anything back especially ZFS, which
| seems to be one of their very very few bright spots).
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http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118166350928468&w=2
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
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