Back in the days of Web 1.0, a.k.a. before the great crash of 2000, Scott McNealy, then CEO of SUN Microsystems was fond of saying, “The network IS the computer.” Now that we’re in the world of Web 2.0 where the term ...READ»
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»
When all else fails, you can always merge. That seems to be the message behind Federated's $11 billion acquisition of May Department Stores. These are two struggling businesses in a moribund industry: for more than a decade now, ...READ»
It's easy to look smart when times are good. What separates winners from losers are the moves their leaders make when times are hard. Six CEOs explain their shrewdest move of 2002.READ»
Last year's Internet Summit was full of boasting and banquets. This year's gathering of tech's brightest stars featured mea culpas and buffets. A field report on the past, present, and future of the Internet economy.READ»
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»
The Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy released their 10th annual CEO compensation survey earlier this week. Among the key findings in "Executive Excess 2003: CEOs Win, Workers and Taxpayers Lose":
CEOs were ...READ»
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»
In a highly unusual and particularly scathing letter to Sun Microsystems' Board and CEO Scott McNealy, influential Merrill Lynch computer hardware analysts Scott Milunovich today warned Sun it may be setting soon, and may face a ...READ»
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has apparently apologized to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to The New York Post. Scott had earlier called the SEC's actions to clean up the debris from all those ...READ»
The ability to relax! That’s what presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, advises as a necessary attribute of presidential leadership. Kearns, who consults for NBC and was speaking on Tim Russert’s CNBC show, presented a ...READ»
CEO Mike Slade has assembled a team of the best and brightest to create the Web's first real company. All they have to do is meet five tough challenges.READ»
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»
John Gage, chief scientist of Sun Microsystems, blends '90s technology with '60s activism. His manifesto: free speech, open companies, virtual work.READ»
The early Internet economy involved startups that vowed to render corporate "dinosaurs" obsolete. Today, the most ambitious online players are those dinosaurs. The future belongs to partnerships. Wells Fargo is inventing the future with young dotcoms.READ»
Before Dick Brown took the reins at EDS, people wrote the company off as slow, stodgy, even uncool. By focusing on the soft stuff -- the company's culture -- he's turned EDS into the leading example of an old-economy company that gets it.READ»
