Jonathan Schwartz's BlogJonathan Schwartz's BlogTransparency and Making Choices- May 18, 2008 Not long ago, I was sitting across from the CEO of a media company. He showed enormous pride in the social value of his organization - in delivering news to the world via a global team of thoughtful, award-winning journalists. He asked what made me proud to be at Sun. Among a number of things, I said I'm proudest of the role Sun plays in making sure stories like his are told - "Our technologies, after all, are how your journalists file their stories, and we play a central role in how you...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/transparency_and_choice JavaFX as Rich Internet Application Platform- May 14, 2008 JavaOne wrapped up on Friday. We hosted individuals from across the globe, and from every industry: consumer electronics and gaming, to enterprise IT, space exploration, factory automation, the automotive industry, academia - like the network itself, Java delivers something for nearly everyone, everywhere. This year's biggest announcements centered around Java's role in the future of rich internet applications (or RIA's). What's a rich internet application It depends on your perspective -..http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/rocking_the_free_world OpenSolaris, Amazon, MySQL and Glassfish... Clouds Parting- May 8, 2008 We made some big announcements this week at our annual developer forums, CommunityOne and JavaOne. I thought I'd highlight a couple in particular. We announced the first commercial release of OpenSolaris - targeting high speed developers and development teams (not consumers...). OpenSolaris focuses on developers wanting to be freed from proprietary software models, who see innovation and automation in operating systems as a source of competitive advantage. If Solaris 10, OpenSolaris's...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/opensolaris_amazon_mysql_and_glassfish Our Q3- May 4, 2008 We announced the results of our third fiscal quarter (Q3) on Thursday last week, and the results weren't what I, or any of us, wanted. As you can read in the press release, we delivered $3.267 billion in revenue for Q3, roughly flat with a year ago. On that revenue, we delivered a GAAP loss of 4 cents (equal to the charge associated with the acquisition of MySQL, which closed within the quarter) - on that revenue, we generated around $320m in cash. The low light of the quarter was revenue..http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/our_q3 |