Thursday, December 29, 2005

Sun Prez and COO Schwartz Interview with Linux Journal

Jim Grisanzio's blog, http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris has an interesting post referencing Doc Searls' (Linux Journal) article based on his conversation with Sun Microsystems' President Jonathan Schwartz. Interesting piece on opening up its SPARC source code, employee retention, and links to Farber's piece on ZDNet.

Funny Remarks Made by Tech Execs in 05

Tech execs made some interesting and perhaps regrettable comments during 2005. Read Wired's account.
"Screw the nano." -- Motorola CEO Ed Zander
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
"Lightweight, and crank it on, and you shuffle the shuffle." -- President Bush