Date: 26-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/aboutsun/executives/mcnealy/multimedia.jsp

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'The McNealy Minute' Podcasts

"The McNealy Minute #21"
After visiting the Technical University of Berlin, Scott talked to TUB graduate student Daniel Freund about why he chose to be a Sun Campus Ambassador and what he is learning and doing on the job.  

"The McNealy Minute #20"
Barry Libert, Chairman of Mzinga and co-author of "We Are Smarter than Me" joins Scott to talk about the ways in which communities can help companies and organizations drive faster innovation and create new opportunities for monetization.  

"The McNealy Minute #19"
Dr. Gregg Alexander, founder of the Clinician Community, joins the chairman to talk about how open source standards and software are driving efficiencies and innovation in a small community's health care system. Find out how one community-driven health care effort is creating a low-cost, easy-to-use model for any community, worldwide, to provide better health care services, data security and access to records with a "hat trick for health care."  

"The McNealy Minute #18"
Scott and Chip Heath, Stanford Professor and Co-Author of bestselling book Made to Stick, continue their discussion about how open, community-based initiatives are helping students, parents and teachers succeed. Tune in to find out why video games and instant messaging might be better teaching tools than textbooks and tests. Part 2 of 2.  

"The McNealy Minute #17"
The Chairman talks with Chip Heath, Stanford Professor and Co-Author of bestselling book Made to Stick, about the ways in which open source and sharing break down the barriers to accessing knowledge and resources, both for businesses and schools. Chip also applies some of the theories of Made to Stick to help simplify and explain the concept of open source. Part 1 of 2.  

"The McNealy Minute #16"
Mike Zafirovski, President & CEO of Nortel, joins Scott for a lively discussion on the future of education, and how Sun, Nortel and others are working together to eliminate the digital divide by providing better access to knowledge through network technology, open systems and sharing.  

Federal News Radio AM1050 Interview
Tune in to hear Scott talk about how the U.S. government can benefit from open standards and free, open source software.  

"The McNealy Minute #15"
The Chairman is back in Europe, and spends his birthday talking with UK-based SCH, one of Sun's top resellers. Find out what this partner thinks about Sun's competitive position today and the market opportunity for Sun and its partners - especially in the areas of Green IT and industry-standard servers.  

"The McNealy Minute #14"
Part 2 of 2 in the McNealy Minute double header from Seoul, Korea. LG is seeing strong profit margins in the mobile technology group, and solid performance across the company - what challenges are ahead as they work to continue that growth? And find out whether it is harder to make money in the US or Asia.  

"The McNealy Minute #13"
Live from the Korea Electronics Show in Seoul. Find out how Samsung uses technology like Java to gain an edge in a hyper-competitive consumer electronics market. Will JavaFX play a part in Samsung's mobile technology plans? And what is a "Samsung House"?  

"The McNealy Minute #12"
Live from the Air Force IT Conference! In addition to homeland security, what's top of mind for Air Force officials these days?  

"The McNealy Minute #11"
Why would you pay $150 for a hammer when you can pay $15? Find out how WW Grainger drives out procurement costs of facilities and maintenance tools and supplies as Scott talks to CTO Ray Feeney.  

"The McNealy Minute #10"
Dr. Diallo with the UN joins Scott to talk about what Sun and the UN are doing to eliminate the digital divide.  

"The McNealy Minute #9"
Scott talks to the director of Curriki about the group's efforts to deliver universal access to education. mobile handset.  

"The McNealy Minute #7 and #8": Special Edition, Live from Mumbai
In a double header, Scott talks to Apallo Hospital Group about how it is using technology to transform health care in India. And, the CIO of Reliance Communications, a company that is adding 1.4 million mobile subscribers a month, speaks to Scott about leapfrogging legacy systems and its $20 mobile handset.  

"The McNealy Minute #6": Live from Beijing!
Scott talks to Dr. Lee, CTO of sina.com about how the leading ISP and online media provider in China is gearing up for the 2008 Olympics and managing a subscriber base that will be larger than the U.S. population by year's end.  

"The McNealy Minute #5" Live from Kansas City
In his role as Chairman, one of Scott's jobs is to focus on Sun's top customers. Tune-in as he talks to Sprint CTO Dick LeFave about their network buildout and the cool mobile services that Sprint sees taking hold.  

"The McNealy Minute #4" Live from Washington DC
Scott talks to eBay's Chief Privacy Officer about how the leading online marketplace manages massive amounts of data associated with millions of daily transactions.  

"The McNealy Minute #3" Live from Sun's WWERC
During Sun's annual World Wide Education and Research Conference, Scott talks to Cal State University Chancellor Reed about the role technology plays in delivering universal access to an education, as well as what higher education can do to help eliminate the digital divide.  

"The McNealy Minute #2" Welcomes Jonathan
Scott's radio show, the Chairman talks to Jonathan Schwartz about their division of labor, business at Sun, eliminating the digital divide, and what's next.  

"The McNealy Minute #1" Live from Tokyo
During the first edition of his radio show, Scott talks with NTT DoCoMo about the next cool mobile applications, why DoCoMo is so far ahead of its competition, and how Sun and DoCoMo can eliminate the digital divide.  


Featured Events

Java: Change (Y)our World
Watch Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy, and James Gosling at the opening JavaOne 2009 keynote.
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Scott McNealy speaks at the Center for Global Development on Monday, May 5, in Washington DC.
During his keynote address and panel session Scott talked about the potential impact of sharing and open source technologies on global governments and the citizens they serve.  

Scott-san on NPR's Pacific Time
After more than 50 trips to Japan in the past 25 years, Scott discusses the changes he's seen in the market, lessons U.S. businesses can learn from Japan, why if you win in Japan you can win anywhere, and what we can do to can help eliminate the Digital Divide.
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Scott Hits the Morning Airwaves to Push Open Education
Sun's Chairman appears on CNBC's Squawk Box and CNBC.com to talk Curriki, a non-profit that hopes to be to education what Google is to search. Learn more about how Curriki (www.curriki.org) is driving open, accessible and community-driven education. Watch Now
 

NPR's Marketplace
Scott appears on The Corner Office to talk about his new job, Sun's culture and why Sun is the noisiest Fortune 250 company out there.
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Video

Watch the Chairman's keynote at WWERC 2008
In just the first two months of 2008, the Chairman spoke with deans, faculty and students from more than 130 universities worldwide. This culminated in his keynote address at Sun's annual 2008 Worldwide Education & Research Conference (WWERC) on Feb. 28, 2008, in San Francisco. Click here to see the Chairman's keynote, and to watch Scott and Xu Ming, an official with the China Ministry of Education, announce China's adoption of the OpenSparc platform to train the next generation of microprocessor engineers.
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Sun's Story - See How It All Began
Scott discusses how Sun came to be, including the infamous negotiations over a Big Mac, the story behind the naming of the company and why he's bullish on Sun's future.
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Founders Panel: January 2006
Scott and his three co-founders, Andy, Bill and Vinod, share some of Sun and Silicon Valley's best moments.
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The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS
Scott hits late night television to talk about his new role and his mission to provide everyone with access to an education.
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Slide Presentations

Big Bets
Sun spends $2 billion a year on R&D. Check out some of the big bets we've made and results we're seeing. Also, check out The Chairman's Top 10 list, advice on bets you shouldn't make.
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Florida Government Technology Conference 2008
Scott's slides from his Sept. 23, 2008 keynote at the Florida Government Technology Conference.
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What We Must Do
For nearly 25 years, the industry has come to expect big ideas from Scott. Check out his calls to action for the private and public sectors as well as consumers.
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What We Must Do: Education in the Participation Age
Scott is passionate about providing educational access and knowledge for everyone, everywhere. See how Curriki, the perfect example of open source education, is poised to engage the 100 million students that don't have access to primary education, and more.
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Getting Privacy Right in the Participation Age
"You have no privacy, get over it." While this becomes more apparent every day, Scott shares some guidelines on what business, government and consumers can do to secure their information as it travels on The Network in the Participation Age.
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The World Today
Scott's view on the biggest challenges companies face as they move into and compete in the Participation Age, from soaring energy costs, to compliance, to Frankenstein.
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