Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. chairman Scott McNealy Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954 in Columbus, Indiana) was the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. on the network computing
model: "Ten million lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. to run a [desktop] word
processor. People found that it wasn't very enterprise-friendly. It
wasn't secure. It wasn't well-networked. It didn't
necessarily drive productivity. It created a lot of activity but not a
lot of output." (Quoted in Computer Reseller News, 11/27/95)
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