Sun Microsystems
Open
Drives
Progress:
Winning in the
Participation Age
Scott McNealy
Chairman and Co-Founder,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
My Job Takes Me Around the World
The World Today
2 Million Users
Each Day
Transactions Are
Accelerating
Massive
More
Amounts
of Data
Collaboration
The New Reality: The Participation Age
Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network
Our Cause: Eliminate the Digital Divide
While Making the Planet Better Off
Our Strategy
Open-Source and Communities Win
Communities Always Win
TM
OpenSPARC
Through Open Standards, Open Interfaces
Innovation Drives Progress
11th Five Year
Plan
and 25Communities
Years of Sun Innovation
Build
Large
Massive Barriers to Entry and Exit
Proprietary Standards Stifle Progress
Open Standards Drive Participation
Stop
Go
Isolation
Sharing
Open Standards Drive Progress
Stop
Go
Proprietary
Open
Open at Work: Curriki
• Open Source Curricula
• Web-based,
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Self Paced, FREE
Community-developed
Low Barriers to
Entry & Exit
35,000 members
3,000 assets
www.curriki.org
A Proposal
Build Large Communities
The Network
is the
Computer
Sun Microsystems
Questions?
[email protected]
www.sun.com/scott