I wish I had better notes, but I was enthralled by Jonathan Schwartz’s (CEO, President, Sun Microsystems) keynote. It was truly, very amazing an influential. He’s a great speaker, and very motivated (and I think he’s motivated a lot of the audience).<\/p>\n
What is Sun’s Agenda?
Similar values, cultures, and similar dysfunction’s like any family.<\/p>\n
The Texas Advanced Computing Center – 500 teraflop “open” super-comptuing facility.<\/p>\n
“Computational science is the third mode of discovery, complementing physical experimentation and theory” — Daniel Atkins III, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastruture, National Science Foundation<\/p>\n
The industry has valid, legitimate scientific purpose.<\/p>\n
Improving society as a result of that understanding. What does it take to fuel developing economies? Or to make new scientific discoveries?<\/p>\n
In Africa, a bank is giving mobile phones, to allow folk to increase wealth! The wealth is in the network, it can’t be stolen anymore.<\/p>\n
An open source phone? Stay tuned, Sun thinks that industry needs to be disrupted.<\/b><\/p>\n
What does it take to connect with your friends? MySQL :) <\/p>\n
Like electricity, like clean water… “The Network has become a Social Utility”<\/b><\/p>\n
I want Sun to be a Great Company, and a good company. You can’t buy the community. The greater you are, the “gooder” you are. Work with communities, drive innovation, and more opportunity is created for all.<\/p>\n
Jonathan shows a map of places where all the blue dots are where people download MySQL. Take the map away, and you’ll see a beautiful picture. Its already the majority of the planet for instance. These folk, have decided that there is a demand for open source software.<\/p>\n
Free software is taking over the world.<\/p>\n
Today ZFS is under a CDDL license, but rumour has it, that this will change in the future.<\/b><\/p>\n
“The Future Will Be Defined by Free… and Freedom”<\/b><\/p>\n
“We want to be in control of our own destiny” – all those places downloading software… Freedom matters to me, because I want access to my own stuff.<\/p>\n
The Amazon. Comprises of 10,000 rivers. They all fuel the Amazon River. Open source, is an ecosystem of many rivers… Sun is saying we’re pro-opensource, pro-free software. Put commitment behind many communities.<\/p>\n
Individuals are making choices… MySQL might be used even without CIOs knowing!<\/p>\n
Secret plot? Let people download, try it, use it, and they’ll change their view of how good it is. And there’s economic benefit (for Sun).<\/p>\n
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