Jonathan Schwartz Driving Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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 R&D 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.