Jonathan Schwartz Quotations

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.

We'll see if we can make progress there.

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.

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 and/or problems sleeping during the day. This affects their productivity; it affects their quality of life.

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.

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 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.

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,

It is a linchpin of the turnaround but it's not the only one.

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

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.

OpenOffice.org is on a path towards being the most popular office suite the world has ever seen,

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,

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

I think our product set is stronger than at the peak of the dot-com bubble.

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

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

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.

We elect local representatives to serve our needs, but then the school board ignores them.

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

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.

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.

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

We've got a great guy here. A guy I've been trying to get into this role for quite awhile now.

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

We are surprised because previous research indicated that wives of men who worked every hour in the day complained about the quality of their relationship. But as far as I can see no one asked them about their sex lives, and those are surprisingly healthy.

Everything that Sun produces will be open source and free.

First of all, we're making money with Java now,

The technology industry is unique in being able to effect social, political and economic progress on a global basis. We take that responsibility, and our partners in innovation around the world, very seriously -- that's why we're proud to provide the computing power needed for Architecture for Humanity to help improve living conditions for so many people.

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.

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

One guy said, 'I dont want anymore source code. I've got plenty of that,'

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.

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. Our open-sourced offerings, including the Solaris Enterprise System, and our industry standard Sun Fire systems and storage offerings are the ideal platforms on which a diversity of OEM partners -- from defense systems to networking equipment -- can now build their products. Our aim is to be the preferred partner for the open source and open standard platforms the market clearly demands.

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

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,

The big wave in the marketplace to me is citizens getting involved in technology, individuals getting involved in technology decisions.

That is not profound, but in a 64-way setting you are saving a lot of money.

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.

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 turned out to be much harder than we'd originally expected.

I want to see most of the planet online.

The Internet has clearly become, as electricity and railroads did before it, a social utility,

Internet-enabling things like vending machines and gasoline pumps not only makes it easier to service and upgrade them remotely, it also provides much higher quality customer data because it removes human error. It also makes supply-and-demand chain operations more efficient and less costly.

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

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

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

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,

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