However, McNealy, 50, said that his Midwest values prevented him from entrusting the task of revitalizing the company to others. He said: "I feel great responsibility and loyalty." Although McNealy sometimes flies into a rage, he insists that he likes the job. He said, "This is a good job."
McNealy believes that many of Sun's problems are only caused by flawed General Accounting Standards (GAPP), and GAPP focuses people's attention on the company's cash records.
In order to rebuild its glory, Sun has provided many killers, including a new open source operating system, servers using AMDOpteron processors and a marketing campaign called "Share the value of Sun". Last Thursday, McNealy was interviewed by CNET news website.
Q: What do you think is Sun's biggest problem and advantage at present?
McNealy: "I just got back from a meeting with our independent software vendors and partners. If you listen to their voices, the biggest problem is that they don't know what our strategy is. They complained,' Why didn't you tell anyone?' So, no one knows our story. We used to rely on ourselves. "
"GAAP doesn't help us, but the main reference of the media for financial data is GAAP. We have a positive cash flow of 16, so according to GAAP, we can't lose billions at once and gain $7.5 billion in cash at once without investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We didn't cheat anyone. We didn't steal money. "
"Our advantage? We are one of the three major processor architecture camps: Intel AMD is one, Sparc of Sun and Fujitsu is another, and Power is the third. These three alliances will continue to exist. As long as one of the following three operating systems survives, it will be beneficial to us: Windows, Solaris and Red Hat. I am happy to compare Solaris with Red Hat. "
"We want to hear what your strategy is?"
McNealy: "I will start with long-term planning. We believe that we are going through the ice age, the iron age, the industrial age and the information age, and entering the era of participation. You have a network where you can do things. You use instant messaging software to communicate, you write online logs, you can take photos, you can publish, you can broadcast (podcast) online, you can trade online, you can learn remotely, and you can enjoy telemedicine. You are participating in online activities, not just browsing. We have built a data center, which can help to participate in the times. We have achieved this great change. Security, Directory, Identity, Privacy, Storage, Computer, All Web Services. We have contributed to this architecture. "
"We have a mission, and this goal will make us make money and let us develop. It allows us to realize our ideals and bridge the digital divide. We believe in our strategy, that is, to make personal computers appear on everyone's desks, or to make large mainframes everywhere. "
"Our strategy is completely different from that of others. This is a community-based development work. This is a new culture. This is not a matter for Scott alone, nor is it a matter for Sun Company. It is to "share". We just seize the word and tell everyone that we have' sharing'. We have this space. "
"At the briefing of the last income report, you said that more income growth was needed. How did you achieve this goal? "
McNealy: "We have focused on improving customer satisfaction, and we will improve the service quality of users and the reliability of hardware. Our current customer satisfaction is quite high, which is something that did not exist in the Internet bubble era. Our main goal at that time was to let our products sell out as soon as possible, which is not a good thing. "
"Second, three years ago, I had a 900MHz UltraSparcIII processor, but this processor was not reliable enough. Now, we have UltraSparcIV, IV+ and UltraSparcIIIi, IIIi+ processors, which will be launched at the end of this year. We have a dual-core Snapdragon, and Andy's new machine will go on the market in the next six months (Editor's Note: Andy here refers to AndyBechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun and the chief designer of the server department in Snapdragon. ) We have an APL (Advanced Product Line) Sparc host chip jointly developed with Fujitsu, which will be launched early next year. Our 32-way 8-core multithreading environment system Niagara will debut this year, and Rock will also be launched next year. Therefore, if we look back from the perspective of microprocessor, in the past three years, we have developed from low-end 900MHz products to the current level. "
"What is our situation in the operating system world? I think it's Solaris 10, which is open source. It is the best new product, with many new functions, such as DTrace, ZFS, faster IP stack, self-recovery function, running red hat program, simulation support for simulating Intel, AMD and Sparc processors. We will open source it and provide it for free. "
"Now, there are 2.5 billion Java devices on the earth, including 700 million mobile phones and 700 million personal computers. In the past few months, the download volume of Java in J2SE environment has reached17 million and 20 million, which is quite a good number. The new Blu-ray specification will make Java virtual machines appear in every next-generation DVD player.
I think our JavaEnterpriseSystem(Java Enterprise System) is likely to break through the 500,000 registered users mark. I think we will become an important force in the network service market. "
"How is the development of OpenSolaris? What is your experience? "
McNealy: "We invented the model of community development. Before our company was established, we started community development. Three or four years before Sun came here, BillJoy, a founder of our company, put forward the idea of using open source community to develop the core of the operating system field. When Linus (the founder of Linux) was still in infancy, we became the red hat of Berkeley. "
"Have we learned anything new in the new wave of community development? From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, our Solaris encountered some obstacles. Because we are trying to compete with the host operating system. In addition, we are in&; TUnixSystemVRelease4 needs to get rid of the dilemma of buying SCO licenses. Six or seven years ago, we couldn't develop our own source code. It took us a long time to overcome the difficulties. "
"what about StorageTek?"
McNealy: "We have developed quite well in the field of servers."
"In the storage market, there are NetApp, EMC, IBM and Sun. We have better products than EMC. StorEdge6920 has a great influence on EMC's products. The high-end cooperates with Hitachi and the low-end cooperates with DotHill. In addition, our relationship with Seagate LSILogic is also very good. "
"Data storage sales orders are growing rapidly, and we have experts in this field. Why do people choose EMC? Because people trust EMC. StorageTek has a good reputation, and the number of users of StorageTek has reached 1.7 million. They gained a 36% share of the global tape library market. All these tape libraries are installed on IBM mainframes. "
"Everyone says that tapes are out of date. I don't think so. In 20 years, it will not disappear. "
"Perhaps, it is more convincing from the financial data. We got a pre-tax income of $6,543.8+0 billion from this $3 billion market. StorageTek contributed millions of dollars in pre-tax income. "