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With rumors of a takeover by IBM swirling around him, Sun Microsytems’ chairman Scott McNealy tried to pitch a room of customers this week on the idea that Sun is a wily innovator whose software and hardware are far less costly than proprietary solutions from Oracle and, yes, IBM. But McNealy had little [...]

Stranger things have happened, but there are several reasons why IBM buying Sun Microsystems could, to borrow a phrase from former Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy, be like two garbage trucks colliding in slow motion.
The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is in talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash, which [...]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy wants President Barack Obama’s administration to do what the U.K., Denmark and other countries have done: encourage, as a matter of policy, open-source software adoption.
Although open-source platforms are widely used today in the federal government — particularly Linux and Sun’s own products, Solaris and Java — McNealy believes many [...]

Sun Microsystems’ chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, told the BBC he had been asked by the new U.S. administration to prepare a paper on how the use of open source software within government, can improve both security and the cost-effective use of technology. President Barack Obama has already been positioned as a friend of open [...]

The co-founder of Sun Microsystems and one of the most respected business leaders in Silicon Valley, Scott McNealy, claims that an open source government will save money and be more secure. McNealy stated that “Open source does not require you to pay a penny to Microsoft or IBM or Oracle or any proprietary vendor any [...]

Obama has asked Sun cofounder Scott McNealy to prepare a paper about the potential cost benefits of adopting open source software in government IT. Although open source adoption would be a smart cost-cutting move, McNealy isn’t exactly a fount of wisdom on the subject.
In an effort to reduce rising government IT costs, the Obama
administration could [...]

The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source technologies and products.
The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley’s most respected business leaders Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Calls for open source government | BBC NEWS

Technology — both in application and message — was a big part of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Now that President Obama has been sworn in, technology appears to still be front and center. Case in point: Co-founder and former CEO of SunMicrosystems, Scott McNealy revealed to the BBC this week that he had been [...]