Scott in Korea and Manhattan
McNealy Hits the Road Again to Promote Sun's Open Strategy and Share His Tricks for Building a Rebel With a Cause
By Rebecca Smith, Office of the Chairman
The Chairman's trip started in Korea, a country with one of the highest
number of connected citizens anywhere in the world. With 80%+
connected to The Network, Koreans are using Java-powered devices to
generate an enormous amount of user generated content and Sun is
helping consumer electronics companies, telcos and Web 2.0 types take
advantage of this phenomenon through its open source strategy.
Scott's first day in Seoul started with a meeting and keynote in front
of FKII member companies. FKII is a group of CEOs that makes IT policy
recommendations to the Korean Government and works to drive innovation
in Korea all in the name of helping the country to continue to compete
on the global stage. In this vein, Scott called on FKII members to
encourage the Korean Government to adopt a completely open platform
based on completely open standards and open technologies. Called,
OpenKorea, the proposal would enable the government to connect its 49
million citizens with each other and the government, drive innovation
and R&D and use technology as a competitive weapon.
Following the keynote, Scott held a press conference with over 30
business and trade reporters. He updated the media on Sun's open
source strategy and the benefits the company is seeing as a result,
including 14% year over year revenue growth in Asia in FY07, nearly
100,000 developers in Korea and 20 Java Community Process (JCP) member
organizations. The Chairman also brought the press up to speed on
partnership developments, including Sun's work with IBM, Intel and
Microsoft. And, he touted Sun's leadership in eco-friendly technology,
an issue that is gaining momentum worldwide, including Korea.
Scott then interviewed two of the leading consumer electronics
companies in the world, Samsung and LG, for The McNealy Minute.
Both talked about the power of Java, the growth they are seeing and the
opportunities ahead. Both editions of the McNealy Minute Double
Header, Live from Seoul, will be posted soon. Stay tuned.
The Chairman's day continued with the keynote at the Korean Electronics
Show, where he shared Sun's latest developments in the consumer space,
including JavaFX, Project Darkstar and Project Wonderland. He
demonstrated the impact these consumer-based technologies are having on
not only the enterprise world but the world at large.
Following the keynote, Scott toured the show floor - checking out the
latest and greatest from Samsung and LG.
The Chairman left the land of consumer electronics for the land of finance where he addressed an audience of 5,000 at The 2008 World Business Forum. Scott shared his tricks of the leadership trade, something he calls
building a rebel (aka Sun) with a cause. Check out his slides. And, click here for photos and coverage of the event.
After a series of meetings, Scott departed for the Bay Area, logging
the final 3,000 miles of his 15,000 mile journey.
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