Sun Microsystems CEO: "We almost died"
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Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on the new iPhone to Schwartz’ surviving a train wreck back in the 1980s and how that had a profound effect on his leadership skills.
Tags: Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, Tim Marsland, Solaris, Steve Jobs, iPhone
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January 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am
I loved this interview. Jonathan Schwartz sounds very well and puts his points across well. And Scoble lets him talk mostly. What I had issue with is the terrible laugh of Robert Scoble. It is extremly loud and very obnoxious. You can see Jonathan to almost jump the first few times it explodes in his face. Its awful and spoils the whole experience.
January 18th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Jiri: good point. I’ve tried to control my laugh, but it’s just my personality and it’s VERY hard to change.
It’s how I am both on camera and off. Here’s another insight from John Welch as to my laugh: http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/01/hmmits_still_here.html
January 18th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
IMHO, mics should have been provided to both Johnathan and Tim. Their voices sound so far away in the video that it’s tough to listen to it from a laptop’s speaker. If this is your standard form of interview videos, this is something you may want to look into seriously. I’m getting bored sitting thru’ trying to hear what Tim has to say.
It may also be worthwhile to provide an audio version of some of these interviews that are just “sit and talk” types - although, sometimes, depending on who is in the video, the appeal may/may-not be there
January 18th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
[…] I watched PodTech Vice President of Media Development Robert Scoble’s interview Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Solaris Chief Technical Officer Dr. Tim Marsland, which was posted online January 17, 2007. The interview can be found at Scobleizer, Robert’s personal blog, and at PodTech. To listen to it or download it, see “Sun Microsystems CEO: “We almost died” . […]
January 18th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
[…] Sun’s CEO with Robert Scoble I have to say that Sun has a ton of work to do. They were once the darling of all programmers. I remember when I first programmed on SunTools in the early 8os. Sun went on to be the leader in computing and computer science. What the hell happened? Here is an interview with Sun’s CEO and PodTech’s Robert Scoble. […]
January 20th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Just watched this using the embedded player (on Jonathan Schwartz’s blog) and it seemed to cut off early. Will try the download version instead.
That aside this was a great interview. The sound was a little off, but otherwise very interesting viewing.
- Neil.
January 21st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Yeah, please get some microphones.. Thanks a lot for the Interesting videos.