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Former Sun Microsystems CEO: HTC Isn't the First Company to Face Legal Threats From Steve Jobs

Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has stepped up to defend Google (in a roundabout way, via HTC) from the patent attacks recently leveled by Apple. If you want to be truly disturbed at how virulent the patent ...READ»

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In Today's Papers

Water cooler conversation fodder: Elders dish advice over the Internet "Credentials come from experience" The five founding principles that drive innovation (registration required) Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz expands on how the ...READ»

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Schwartz Kicks off Supernova

Here at the Supernova conference in San Francisco, Jonathan Schwartz is making a case for executive blogging. Schwartz is the president and COO of Sun Microsystems, and he's also probably the highest-profile exec in the Fortune 500 ...READ»

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Sun King

Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO of Sun Microsystems, on the lack of great leaders in business, the future of technology, and vacationing in Australia.READ»

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Jonathan Schwartz: Perspective

Jonathan Schwartz is president and COO of Sun Microsystems. What follows is a partial transcript of his Supernova remarks: Kevin Werbach: When people think about Sun, they usually think about big iron servers and large-scale ...READ»

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Dawn of the Dead

Once one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley, Sun Microsystems crashed with the dotcoms, but it kept pouring money into R&D. Now there are signs of a revival, thanks to a new CEO and a big black box.READ»

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Sun Up

Jennifer's right that the departure of McNealy from Sun comes at a time when the company sorely needs reinvention and redirection. It's been interesting to read the coverage of his changing roles at Sun. Some articles are relatively ...READ»

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Exec Meets Blog. Exec Falls in Love.

Execs are blogging about everything from war to kangaroo meat. But should you tune in?READ»

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Leaders Pushing Limits

I have been reading with great interest, of late, the phenomenon of leaders taking physical risks and challenges to "keep the edge". It is an interesting concept. In a recent USA Today article by Del Jones, he writes about CEOs and ...READ»

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Hovercards and Haiku Resignations ... It's Today's Twitter News!

Twitter's quietly adapting and improving services almost as fast as people are finding new ways to use its social media powers. Today it added hovercard data previews to its Web site...just as Sun's CEO resigned with a Tweet. The ...READ»

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Support Teamwork

While it was nice to see Jonathan Schwartz's blog entry sharing his appreciation for outgoing Sun chief Scott McNealy earlier this week, it was even nicer to see the first-person piece by Tom Hanks in the New York Times Styles ...READ»

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Does Your CEO Blog?

“Helping Dolphins Fly” is the title of blogpost from CEO of Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz. Sun Microsystems is not helping dolphins fly of course, it’s a metaphor for their acquisition of My SQL (their logo is a dolphin). Johnathan is one of the leaders in the CEO blogging community and has set an example of the what a CEO blog can be. We will weigh the benefits and downsides of CEO blogging to help determine whether or not you, as a CEO, or your boss should take…READ»

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CEOs Who Blog

In our February issue, we took a look at three notable CEOs who maintain their own blogs. One of them is Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO of Sun Microsystems. Earlier today, a reader of FC Now emailed to inform me that another ...READ»

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The Future of Newspapers

In this age of user-generated content and citizen journalism, it might seem like newspapers are becoming yesterday's news. But there's more life in them yet.READ»

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Sun Down

Yesterday, one of the longest tenures in the tech space came to an end when Scott McNealy, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and for the last 21 years its CEO, announced he was stepping down (subscription required). The ...READ»

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Trust and Consequences

Why do some companies win public trust and others lose it?READ»

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Innovation-Centric Company

Companies have historically considered the product to be the core of their business. This has been followed by "service as core" and "process as core." A product-centric company may be something like a mid-20th century General ...READ»

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Should Your CEO Be A Blogger?

Here are some questions a number of Human Resources Directors and Heads of Leadership are aksing today: Should our CEO start a blog? Do our top three competitor CEOs have blogs? Are these competitor CEO blogs a corporate ...READ»

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Sun Done?

Will Oracle's acquisition of Sun -- and hence MySQL -- trigger antitrust interference?READ»