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Sun Rises Over Niagara

Bob2002

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Here's a reasonably interesting keynote speech from Sun about their new products based on the Niagara (UltraSPARC T1) chip. It can run with up to 8 separate cores on it, with four threads per core, so oddly enough it's great for multi-threaded apps; though the current model shares only a single FPU between them (due to change for Niagara II in 2007). It's also low relatively power. Apart from talking about the chip's engineering, it focuses a lot on the advantages for data centres and the fact that people like eBay and EDS, who speak in person, just often run in problems with having enough electrical power for traditional servers. There is also a fun free data centre builder app that lets you cost out how much performance you are getting for your money - http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/simdatacenter/index.jsp .

By the way Sun _really_ hates Dell as you will see in the promotional videos they show e.g. "Ice Station Xeon". The old x86-64 ad, below, is mild compared to the keynote videos. :laugh:

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--> Click here for the keynote video <--


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Found the speech a little on the dry side myself. How the hell does someone as dull as that become a CEO?
 
I take your point, though I'm used to his style I suppose. Compared to someone like Steve Jobs, Scott Mcnealy isn't as impressive (or nasty for that matter), but I find him fairly relaxed and likeable personally. Also Mcnealy was essentially flogging Niagara servers to business people, whereas an Apple keynote, for instance, would focus on how pretty some desktop widgets were, or whether you could plug your Ipod into your toaster - Itoast. :p

As for how he got his job -

Scott McNealy (born 13 November 1954, Columbus, Indiana) is the well-known Chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 1984, McNealy took over the CEO role from co-founder Vinod Khosla, who would ultimately leave the company in 1985. Sun Microsystems, along with companies such as Silicon Graphics, 3COM, and Oracle Corporation, was part of a wave of successful startup companies in California's Silicon Valley during the early and mid-1980s.

Unlike most people involved in high technology industries, Scott McNealy did not come from the world of amateur programmers, hackers, and computer scientists. Instead, his background is from the business end, having graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At Stanford, McNealy met Khosla, Joy, and Bechtolsheim and helped provide the necessary organizational and business leadership for the fledgling Sun Microsystems ("Sun" originally stood for Stanford University Network). McNealy is one of the few CEOs of a major corporation to have had a tenure of over twenty years.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_mcnealy

So, to co-found a company, go through some rough times and still have over $4 billion in the bank for spending money, he must have something going for him even with his deceptively relaxed personality. :)
 
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