Eger | Some time ago, Scott McNealy, then head of Sun Microsystems, said quite emphatically, “Privacy is dead. Get over it.” Nobody seemed to care, frankly. Even now that Google has released its new privacy rules, there is considerable indifference. ...

Yet that's not always the way to go. Microsoft has long been famous for its penchant for piling feature after feature into new versions of its software, a practice that years ago led then-Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy to refer to Windows as " a...

“The amount of time I wanted to spend on golf courses talking about server consolidation -- those days are gone.” Schwartz took the reins at Sun, once a power in the computer workstation and server market, from co-founder Scott McNealy in 2006. The...

Jim Clarke is incredibly personable. He says technology work should be fun. I meet him in Palo Alto at his book signing for Netscape Time. Following Jim's lead, I wrote my own book, Getting Started with Sun ONE, which was published by Prentice Hall. ...

McNealy had been responding to a question about the implications on privacy for Sun’s Jini, which was supposed to have allowed Java devices to connect and share computing resources. Back then, McNealy was box-happy: Sun might have invented Java, but...

It's not just that we no longer feel outraged by repeated incursions on our virtual personal space. We now welcome the scrutiny of strangers by freely sharing the most intimate details of our lives on Facebook, Twitter and other sites. In 1999, Silicon...