Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy tells attendees that the tech industry has entered the "Participation Age" during a keynote speech on Sept. 20 at the Oracle OpenWorld customer conference in San Francisco.
Sun's newly launched UltraSparc IV+ chip, also known as Panther, is demoed by CEO Scott McNealy, left, and Fred Kohout, vice president of marketing for Sun's Scalable Systems Group, at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Sept. 20.
Sun CEO Scott McNealy quips that customers could buy 14 Sun servers for the price of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's suit.
Sun is in the midst of six "iPod moments," transformations that could mean new revenue for the server company, CEO Scott McNealy tells his audience at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.
At the Oracle OpenWorld confab, Sun CEO Scott McNealy shows off "Niagara," a processor with eight cores that can run a total of 32 instruction sequences, or threads. Sun expects to debut the chip in servers in the coming months.
A racing yacht sponsored by Oracle was somehow squeezed through the doors at San Francisco's Moscone Center for the company's OpenWorld customer conference.