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Avoiding a Tech Sunset
A big buzzword for you lately is eco-computing. What is Sun doing in that area?
A few years ago we predicted the cost of power would eventually eclipse the cost of a computer, and right now in Tokyo that is the case. How do we begin to really limit the power waste and go focus on the efficiency of the work that most data centers want to go do? We introduced a very odd product about a year and a half ago, a computer that was not very fast at doing one thing, but it was very efficient at doing 32 things at the same time. We called it Niagara servers, as in Niagara Falls. That product went from zero to a $100 million in revenue within [a few] quarters.
How much do you save by doing that?
Up to 50 to 74 percent of your power bill.
What are the pros and cons of a CEO blog?
If something happens, I don't want to rely on third parties to interpret it, I just want to be right there to talk about it. So the upside is, we're among the most transparent companies in the marketplace. The downside is, every once in a while, you get some particularly unkind personal attack. I'm fine standing up for the performance of the company, but when it comes to personal appearance or religious ethnicity, I'm not so OK with that.
You get flak for the ponytail, too.
It would be easier to get a really short haircut, stop speaking publicly, go hole up inside an office and never talk to the world, and have somebody else write the letter to the shareholder. But I'd like to grow a company. I think the best way for me to communicate the values of the company is every day and every week.
Twenty years ago you almost died in a train accident. What did you take from that?
It taught me true definition of risk. I'd been working for McKinsey. I left to go start a company with a bunch of friends. We ate beans and rice for a year because we didn't have any money. The worst that could happen is that we'd fail and then we'd all get into grad school. It's not as though we were going to die. A lot of the way I think about the world is a derivative of that train accident.
© 2007
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Posted By: srinivasvarma8888 @ 12/04/2007 4:05:00 AM
Comment: There is a programme on TV stating by one GE Head that USA has many specialised domain experts, India doesnt have, this statement includes engineering domain and software domain.
indian software lives on dollar strength and not on hightech people, afterall software is not hightech, its junk work done by key pushers, most people here in idnai doesnt know the calculus basics like why a derivative is used and whats the limit in the derivative is doing, they just blindly mugup. There is one fellow here called IIT Ramaiah lecturer who teaches just limits and he knows only that, and makes students mugup to get entrance to a dirty competitive entrance exams.
Indian software Industry is very dirty and the competition is very dirty,they think they are doing high tech work, they cheat the US companies for projects, and also the salary figures are hidden from the US clients(the one who outsources the projects to India), they say a salary figure of 1lakh and we have MS students as our employees, but tje salary given is just 60K rupees/month and the guys are just BE,MCA graduates, this is how they cheat and remaining money is going into black accounts, thereby decieving the stock holders too. The people think that they do high tech work, but what they do here is just clerical work by typing some code, a code is a format or rule developed by some company and one fellow has to tune it to their end application, for eg Vb or C, also wireles applications like cdma, tdma, etc are not technologies they are just formats and one has to learn each companies format.
Microsoft seem to take over the world by tying up with Intel last time in chip fabrication and certain code protection issues.
Now it wants to launch a TV too which is web enabled. This may include a built in popcorn machine and a soda maker too for the TV viewers. They seem to control the TV, and controlling the Internet with their code and industries with their software, they seem to take over the world....
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