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| 17 May 2007 |
Open for Learning Scott calls for open
source education to help eliminate the education divide, ensuring no
child, parent or teacher is held back. |
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| 15 Jan 2007 |
Hear Scott and Bill Vass, president and chief operating officer of Sun Federal, discuss how government customers are changing how they buy computing. |
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| 26 April 2006 |
What if Google, Intel and Sun had been started overseas? How to align our immigration laws with our economic needs. |
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| 01 April 2006 |
Scott calls on everyone to eliminate the barriers to innovation in order to usher in the next Google. |
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| 01 March 2006 |
In an increasingly networked world, having a single, open standard is the only thing that makes sense. Scott talks about the advantages of Open Document Format (ODF). |
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| 01 Feb 2006 |
Scott discusses the inevitable move from protectionist business models to sharing and why unlocking the crown jewels of every enterprise is a good move. |
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| 01 Jan 2006 |
When purchasing technology, what do companies need to factor in besides acquisition and operating costs? Barriers to Exit. |
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| 01 Dec 2005 |
Value is created through network effects, through shared standards and through participation. Why Communities always win. |
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| 01 Nov 2005 |
Scott challenges companies to welcome three million people onto The Network each week without torching the planet. |
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Scott lightened the mood on a 100+ degree day at the Annual Air force
IT Conference in Montgomery, AL with the following.
Top 10 Similarities Between IT Pros and Air Force Pilots
10. Both generate lots of hot air
9. Both blame it on the equipment, not the operator
8. Their mistakes are usually CNN Headline News
7. LOM and UAV's pose same threat
6. Neither care how much fuel they burn
5. Neither thinks anyone understands how hard their job is
4. Both complain their equipment gets upgraded every 24 years
3. One uses CTRL ALT DELE, the other uses EJECT to solve big problems
2. Both hate crashes
1. Sys admins and Thunderbird Pilots get all the chicks or hunks
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Here's the list Scott shared with the America's Sales Force at their
FY08 kick off conference.
Top 10 Account Assignments That Mean Your Days Are Numbered
10. Lindsay Lohan's Driving School
9. Red Hat
8. Guantanamo Bay Correctional Facility
7. Enron
6. K-6 Supercomputing Market
5. W's Stem Cell Research Center
4. NBA Referee Betting Site
3. Barry Bonds' Tour de France Pharmacy Chain
2. Sun Microsystems IT Department
1. Michael Vick Dog Training and Grooming Kennel
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At a Bay Area Council meeting, Scott offered some reasons why locals
are pouncing on the latest from Apple.
Top 10 California Reasons to Buy an iPhone
10. Find a local ethanol station to fill up your Hummer hybrid
9. Along with iPod and iTunes, why not iSpend?
8. Sell it for a huge profit on eBay
7. You didn't know AT&T would give you four less expensive but just as useful phones for free
6. To prove you are a wealthy, retired person of absolute leisure
5. It matches your black turtleneck, no matter what iPhone you're wearing that day
4. You coulda used it to see who was ahead of you in the America's Cup
3. It's not Windows
2. So you can call a friend who doesn't care what kind of phone you have
1. Not sure since it doesn't run Java
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Scott gives Chief Privacy Officers some tips on how they can get CEO's
to up-level privacy and security challenges.
Top 10 Ways to Make Privacy the Boss's Concern
10. Show the boss their daughter's MySpace page
9. Tell the boss the auditor lost personal data (on a stolen laptop)
8. Install a hum generator in office handset
7. Pre-text the boss's phone bill
6. Update the boss's Wikipedia posting
5. Publish recent NetFlix orders
4. Post college report card, assuming the boss graduated
3. Reroute the boss's home security cameras to YouTube
2. Remove all sticky notes, with passwords, from computer screen
1. Spend $1000 to do a security check on the boss
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Here's the list the producers wouldn't let him read on the air when
Scott guest hosted CNBC's Squawk Box in February.
Top 10 No No's as a Guest Host on CNBC's Squawk Box
10. Top 10 lists, this isn't CBS
9. Discuss the flatness of GE stock
8. Act like Jim Kramer
7. Scratch or pick while the red light is on
6. Forget to say hi to the family
5. Shamelessly plug Sun products...or the 7M Solaris downloads...or the Intel deal...or earnings
4. Back date the on air waiver
3. Pre-text the hosts...before the show
2. Give rides to The Money Honey on the corporate jet
1. Forget to run your jokes by the producers
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As Chairman of Sun Federal, Scott had to get a
security clearance - it's not as cool as you'd think.
Top 10 Downsides to Having a Security Clearance
10. I actually DID inhale
9. Headhunters call at dinnertime
8. Debriefs required after I watch Alex Ovechkin play hockey
7. I have to contend with a different Gates now
6. No more hot Russian babes
5. I can't take my PC home with me
4. I need Flomax to produce a urine sample
3. What happens in Vegas may not actually stay in Vegas
2. I have to explain that showering with guys after hockey games is normal
1. Two words: Polonium Sushi
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Top 10 Things I Haven't Told Jonathan
10. Hair dryers will not be installed in the Men's Rooms in Menlo Park
9. There's an underground bunker (only Cheney and I know where it is)
8. CEO is required to tend bar at Board of Directors dinners and sales meetings
7. He's next for April 1
6. I signed him up for my hockey league
5. The mansion in Santa Clara is not an official CEO residence
4. Sun CEOs get free haircuts at Supercuts
3. I'm starting a blog
2. I'm resurrecting the Beer Bust
1. The '07 sales goals are too high! |
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Top 10 Best Things About Not Being CEO
10. I don't have to apologize for the stuff I say to Wall Street
9. I'm no longer on the most overpaid CEO list
8. I just say, "see Jonathan on that"
7. I read Hockey News without guilt
6. I shave even less often
5. No more Sarbanes Oxley certification
4. I have someone to blame
3. I can sell my last business suit
2. Jonathan doesn't golf, so I guess I gotta do it
1. My office is very close to the men's room
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Top 10 Ways the IT World is Like Washington, DC
10. Everyone has a different plan for "security"
9. Both generate hot air
8. "Upgrades" every 2-4 years
7. Consultants requesting you to sign-up for "Four More Years"
6. Source code and legislation equally unreadable (and buggy)
5. Washington = Sea of Lobbyists; IT = Ocean of Sys Integrators
4. Both are huge cost centers
3. We're both trying to secure our ports
2. Monopolists have been in charge for decades
1. We both invented the Internet
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Top 10 Excuses for Not Turning in Homework
10. Tech support for my PC was offshored
9. Had to delete it to make room for iTunes
8. Still hand-writing it, productivity suite license too expensive
7. I emailed it... didn’t you get it?
6. Couldn’t afford HP ink cartridge
5. T%k t% lng 2 QWERTY – txt 2 U instead? Translation: "Took too long to type on regular keyboard, can I text it to you instead?"
4. "Cut and Paste" keys were worn out
3. Plan on "open sourcing" from kid next to me
2. Busy writing the "I Love You Too" virus
1. The dog chewed-up my laptop
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Top 10 Nightmares of a Security Systems Admin
10. First line of defense in security crisis plan: "pull power plug"
9. Worn out Ctrl+Alt+Del keys
8. Wearing an orange jumpsuit for the next 5 to 7 years
7. Working in an all-Microsoft shop
6. Laptops (aka the mobile personal mainframe)
5. You're the only one that opens fuzzybunny.exe
4. Company policy: Root-level access for all!
3. Blue Screen of Death
2. Being told there's a patch to a patch
1. Having a virus named in honor of you
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"I always make the Al Gore-ish statement that we invented community development. Three or four years before we founded Sun, one of our founders (Bill Joy) was pioneering the idea of open-source community-developed kernels in the operating system space. We were the Red Hat of Berkeley before Linus (Torvalds, the Linux founder) was out of diapers." |
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"All technology has the shelf life of a banana." |
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"I've never gone into a data center and thought, 'I've seen that before.'" |
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"The barrier to exit on the Sun Grid is zero, when you're done you leave. It's like getting out of a cab." |
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"The cap on H1B visas is flatline thinking." |
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"All the wood behind one arrow." |
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"Kick butt and have fun." |
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"The best decision is the right decision. The next best is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision." |
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"Web 2.0? We're in Web 43." |
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"Why is California paying some $400 million annually to update K-12 textbooks?" |
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"Some people might not be excited about our StorageTek acquisition, tell a customer you've lost their data -- and see how excited they get." |
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"Without choice, you have no innovation. And without innovation, you have nothing." |
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