Oracle Open World : Day 2 : Scott McNealy’s Keynote

A quick picture from today's Scott McNealy keynote, with Scott's take on what's on Larry's iPod at the moment...

The usual entertaining presentation, lots of talk about open source (though not GPL), computing as a utility, and the six bits of R&D investment that will provide Sun's "Apple iPod moment". My opinion? They may have pots of money but they're going to fall prey to the "cheaper", "faster" world of commodity x86 / x64 servers, they'll be lucky if there's any real takeup of Open Solaris and in the end it'll be just Windows and Linux, but it's good to see companies out there still heavily investing in R&D and trying to survive by innovating rather than just churning out clones and driving out cost.