"Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Microsystems Chairman of the Board
and cofounder Scott McNealy kicked off Oracle OpenWorld 2009 with a
humorous keynote presentation last night. McNealy's classic top 10 list
poked fun at engineers "gone wild," then shifted to a more serious
list: Sun's technology innovation. "Innovation is at the core of Sun.
We are a products company with significant R&D," said McNealy. Touting
a variety of innovative Sun technologies—Solaris, SunRay thin client,
chip multithreading—McNealy then introduced the "father of Java," Sun
vice president and fellow James Gosling. "I've never worked for a
software company, so it'll be an adventure," said Gosling. "They won't
be a software company after we get done with them," McNealy replied. Sun
Executive Vice President John Fowler announced that Sun is now the
number one world-record holder in all seven key commercial benchmarks.
He also highlighted the recently released Sun Oracle Database Machine,
which brings together Oracle's software innovation and Sun's hardware
innovation." Read the full story here
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