i-Technology Viewpoint: We Must Get Beyond "Binary Extremes," Says Sun's COO

'There are those that persist in trying to draw the industry as filled with binary extremes,' writes Jonathan Schwartz, currently the industry's highest-profile blogger. But it isn't an either/or choice these days, Schwartz argues, in his latest effusion. It isn't open-source or proprietary. It all depends 'upon the constituency you're serving,' Schwartz says.

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#15	thY762 commented on 26 Oct 2004 I think that I would like to be a CEO and a blogger, this seems like FUN
#14	Roller Update commented on 26 Oct 2004 anyone know if Roller is still on for its planned 1.0RC1 release this week? The answer is yes Before the RC1 release, dave hopes to update the Installation Guide and to write up a summary of the many changes made since the last release - which was 0.9.8.3 on the websphere question, Jeff Chilton has written about it - maybe someone has the link?
#13	QueZZtion commented on 26 Oct 2004 Talking of Dave Dave Johnson anyone know if Roller is still on for its planned 1.0RC1 release this week? Also, can Roller be ported to WebSphere -anyone know?
#12	Competition Idea commented on 26 Oct 2004 Personally what I'd like to see most is a "blog-off" between Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy and Bill Gates to see which of the three can engage and inform me most! I guess they won't want to use Roller, though, given Sun's now hired David Johnson fulltime.
#11	underdog commented on 26 Oct 2004 He's not as well known as John Patrick let alone Billy G but David Scott Anderson, CEO of the curiously named international consulting and technology development company Grupo Utopia, maintains a daily blogcalled "In Search of Utopia" on his company's Web site. He's a tech guy but there's plenty of politics - yesterday it was combatively titled "Stealing the Election 2004 Edition" for example. This is CEO blog-activism, at its rawest.
#10	JPatrickRocks commented on 26 Oct 2004 How can everyone be forgetting about former Vice President of Internet technology at IBM, now President of Attitude LLC, John Patrick? His blog is a hymn to the next-generation Internet. A veritable must-read.
#9	GoooooooooMavs commented on 26 Oct 2004 r u guts all living in a cave or something?? The only CEO blogger worth considering is Mark Cuban - you know, billionaire businessman and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. Blog Maverick he calls it. Go take a look/read - it's an informative, feisty read! :)
#8	Top Dog commented on 26 Oct 2004 The top CEO blogger? Duh! Who else but Craig Newmark the CEO of Craiglist, which employs only 14 people yet makes about $25 million per year on just 12 percent of its available ad inventory? No wonder eBay bought %25 of it.
#7	BlogeursRule commented on 26 Oct 2004 Apparently no one here is a CEO or they'd already know about The International Club of CEO Bloggers which seems to be the work of (what else) a CEO. Guillaume du Gardier describes himself as "CEO and Blogger" - for the curious, CEO Bloggers' Clubcomes out in French as "Club des PDG Blogueurs" (so now you know!)
#6	Bill's BLog? commented on 26 Oct 2004 Hehe, clearly no-one here lives like me in Seattle, or you would already know that Blogzilla is about to enter the field: according to Brier Dudley, a Seattle Times technology reporter, one William H. Gates III is about to our-blog every blogger in cyberspace: Bill Gates could join the ranks of bloggers Bill Gates has a reputation for coming late to the party, then making a big splash when he arrives. That's what happened after the Microsoft chairman realized the potential of the Internet. And it may happen again if he starts his personal Web log. Yes, the world's richest man may start his own blog This report is from just last Friday. Watch out, world!!
#5	BolgLOGb commented on 26 Oct 2004 He is a brave blogger. Maybe JDJ would like to conduct a poll and establish whether anyone else is blogging as often and as honestly as Jonathan Schwartz. I know that Michael Robertson at Lindows does one, who else? I mean at COO or CEO level, not just the Microsoft bloggers or the Sun bloggers en masse.
#4	pachi commented on 25 Oct 2004 No one raised hands probably because most software is created as in-house development... so neither is open software nor it is proprietary software... Plainly it's software not released at all. In that case probably the benefits of following an FOSS model would be greater if only you date to spend some effort publishing the code.
#3	Blue dog commented on 25 Oct 2004 Sun is siting on both sides of the fence now. It will be interesting to see if "the community" is comfortable with that - after all, it is comfortable with IBM doing the same, why not Sun?
#2	BlogThat! commented on 25 Oct 2004 Another power blogger is Alan Meckler. Anyone remember his massive attack last year on a Las Vegas hotel chain that he felt had sabotaged the commercial success of his rival event to Comdex. Hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned!
#1	Blogospherical commented on 25 Oct 2004 According to this report from Business 2.0 Schwartz's blog reaches more than 100,000 readers per month. The article calls him "a blogging addict" and says that there are now 5,000 serious corporate blogs like Schwartz's.