Ex-Sun chief Scott McNealy told us in 2006 we have no privacy on the web and to “get over it.” With it’s IPO fling published, Facebook shows Silicon Valley continues to treat privacy as an afterthought but with a sky-high valuation in the balance Mark Zuckerberg’s social network follows Google in trying to convince us [...]
Killing its rival to the iPad was expected, but Hewlett-Packard’s revelation it’s reviewing its PC business and might withdraw from the sector completely to become a software company was not. I explain how the world’s largest PC maker is following dangerously in the footsteps of its one-time Silicon-Valley neighbor, the server systems-giant Sun Microsystems. You [...]
Oracle’s $5.6bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 didn’t just deliver the software giant a hardware empire, it secured control over one of the planet’s most popular programming languages – Java. And Oracle wasn’t about to surrender control based on some idealistic notions of freedom – no matter what it had once said when Sun [...]
Did the once-mighty Sun Microsystems go too far, putting community ahead of shareholders by giving away too much of its software? Founder and former CEO Scott McNealy thinks it might. I talked to McNealy, here, about lessons learned and how Sun’s new owner Larry Ellison can dodge death by open source.
Oracle’s $5.6bn purchase of Sun Microsystems saw a mega tech vendor acquire a hugely popular open-source product and project: MySQL. The deal closed a decade in which Linux and free and open source (FOSS) cross from geek periphery to business mainstream. After 10 years of money, fame and growth, where will they be in the [...]
iPhones, USBs and netbooks – the Noughties ushered in a swath of technologies that few anticipated and many now take for granted. The first decade of the 2000s wasn’t always nice, though, and giants Microsoft, Google and Sun Microsystems all suffered tactical mistakes and stunning missed opportunities thanks to a combination of management hubris and [...]
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