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McNealy steps down as Sun CEO
News Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, and has been replaced by President Jonathan Schwartz, the company said on Monday. Schwartz now is chief executive and president, and the chief operating officer role has...
[April 25, 2006, 10:30]
Sun: Same song, second verse?
News When Sun Microsystems on Monday named Jonathan Schwartz its first new chief executive in 22 years, he and predecessor Scott McNealy predicted more of the same for the company. Schwartz hinted that tactics might change even if the strategy doesn't.
[April 26, 2006, 11:20]
Sun chiefs look forward to next 20 years
News Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, could have waited for the server and software company to show more evidence of recovery before handing the chief executive role over to Jonathan Schwartz. Are we going to see the "same song, second verse...
[April 26, 2006, 14:45]
Sun: We've turned over a new leaf
News After the dot-com bubble burst, chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz said, Sun wasn't able to supply what customers wanted -- servers using Intel processors and products that work with Microsoft software and IBM mainframes.
[September 22, 2004, 8:20]
Sun's 'Orion' hunts for simpler software
News The project, called Orion, is Sun's attempt to make its software simpler to install, run and pay for, said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software, at the company's annual analyst conference here (News Focus).
[February 26, 2003, 8:13]
Sun shines a light on open source
News The company has open sourced its Solaris Unix operating system, and chief executive Jonathan Schwartz — a software man himself — said Sun intends to eventually open source its entire software product line, even the Java programming package...
[July 10, 2006, 16:00]
Sun looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris
News Now, though, Sun likes the idea of governing both projects with the upcoming GPL version 3, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said in a speech and an interview at the company's analyst summit in San Francisco on Tuesday.
[February 9, 2007, 15:22]
Blog! review
Reviews The business section includes Microsoft's Robert Scoble, Sun president Jonathan Schwartz and Japan's Joi Ito. Blogs, Kline and Burstein argue, can also give companies a human face, as Jonathan Schwartz has done for Sun and Scoble for Microsoft.
[October 5, 2005, 0:00]
Sun seeks new coders, revenue via JavaFX
News But chief executive Jonathan Schwartz, despite Sun's dropping revenue, low stock price and large new layoff, believes JavaFX will overcome its obstacles. Though Java has been good for Sun's brand, it hasn't been a cash cow, but here again Schwartz...
[December 4, 2008, 7:35]
Sun setting on McNealy's reign?
News If McNealy decides not to continue running Sun, Governor believes that Jonathan Schwartz, who was appointed Sun's president and chief operating officer, would be the ideal successor because Schwartz is very much like McNealy and has been known to...
[April 5, 2004, 18:15]
Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPLv3
News But Sun holds the software copyright, and chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said in May that he hopes the GPLv3 could let Sun "converge on a uniform licence". The good news is that Jonathan Schwartz actually does seem to have made a difference, and...
[June 13, 2007, 9:15]
Open is as open does, Sun
Leader Jonathan Schwartz is sad again, and in the modern way he's blogging his misery for the world to see. Schwartz' warning that IBM is trying to lock everyone into its Power5 architecture sits oddly with IBM's Linux support for every major chip family.
[January 25, 2005, 12:25]
Keep on rocking in the free code world
Blog Rich Green, Neil Young, & Jonathan Schwartz at JavaOne - Image courtesy of Sun Microsystems Sitting alongside Young in our meeting was Sun CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz who was at pains to emphasise his company’s relationship with the ageing...
[May 6, 2008, 23:51]
Dell and Sun team up on Solaris
News At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz and Dell chief executive Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.
[November 15, 2007, 16:50]
Sun 'distorts' definition of free software
News Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community by appearing to misrepresent what open source is. In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he spoke about how free price is the most...
[July 1, 2005, 12:05]
Sun: PCs are outmoded
News So asserted Jonathan Schwartz, president of server and software maker Sun. The real innovation is occurring in the network and the network services," Schwartz said. Schwartz points to the increasing wealth and power of companies, like eBay, Google...
[September 26, 2005, 8:55]
Sun CEO: Volume will drive value
News Sun chief executive and president Jonathan Schwartz believes volume is being driven by the increasing number of people connecting to the internet from across the globe, and the resulting demand for new media content and services such as social...
[August 30, 2007, 15:03]
Sun releases Sparc specs in Linux love bid
News In addition, Sun President Jonathan Schwartz announced that the company will use the General Public License (GPL) to govern the release of the chip design itself. It's going to come to hardware, and we're going to drive that," Schwartz said in a...
[February 15, 2006, 8:00]
Hundreds of Sun employees laid off
News The first wave of cuts took place in June, and the overall layoff will be finished by the end of June 2007, the end of Sun's first full fiscal year with new chief executive Jonathan Schwartz at the helm.
[August 4, 2006, 11:10]
Sun's gamble explained
News So it's fitting that Jonathan Schwartz is the company's number two executive. Since then, Schwartz has pinned much of Sun's turnaround plan on software. Schwartz has a reputation as an ideas man, but now he's got to turn those ideas into reality.
[February 8, 2005, 11:30]
