Jonathan Schwartz

摘要

Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz thinks that the economic downturn and the Wall Street meltdown will make IT managers more open to change than they have ever been before. And that is going to benefit Sun and its open-source strategy, contends Schwartz, who is also the company's president and a high-profile blogger. What are you doing to help your customers with their economic problems? We are preconfigured for the downturn. If you think about the discretionary expenses that go into operating a data center, first and foremost there's the physical plant itself - the physical space, the power consumption, the HVAC. So all the work that we do around energy efficiency and on getting optimal performance - it's because the environment ends up being a huge operating expense for our customers. And to the extent that we can help them lower their environmental impact, we're also lowering the economic impact on their businesses. That's clearly Job 1.