Scott McNealy war der Vorstandsvorsitzende von Sun Microsystems, die er 1982 gemeinsam mit Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy und Andreas von Bechtolsheim gegründet hat. Die Position des CEO hatte er von 1984 bis 2006 inne.
1984 übernahm McNealy die Position des CEO von Vinod Khosla, der die Firma 1985 verließ. Nach 22 Jahren, am 24. April 2006, übergab McNealy die Position des CEO an Jonathan I. Schwartz.
McNealy machte seinen High-School-Abschluss an der Cranbrook School, einer heute zur Cranbrook Educational Community gehörenden Privatschule. Er studierte an der Harvard University und an der Stanford University. Wikipedia
“What we offer is good enough. It's like my haircut: It ain't pretty, but it's good enough.”
Sun CEO: We're "good enough", 2006-08-25, 2002-10-08, Ricciuti, Mike, CNET News.com, http://archive.is/4UmxS, 2013-06-28 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-961216.html,
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
Sun on Privacy: 'Get Over It', Sprenger, Polly, 2008-01-11, 1999-01-26, Wired http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538,
CNBC: "Silicon Valley pioneer Scott McNealy: Tech is 'unstoppable' and part of our lives more than ever" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/09/silicon-valley-pioneer-scott-mcnealy-tech-is-unstoppable.html (9 February 2018)
“In a world without fences, who needs Gates?”
JAVAMAN THE ADVENTURES OF SCOTT MCNEALY TODAY'S EPISODE HIS FIGHT TO SAVE THE WORLD WIDE WEB FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE, Fortune, 13 October 1997, Schlender, Brent http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/13/232510/index.htm,
Testimony before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on market power and structural change in the software industry, 1998-03-03 ( transcript at CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/microsoft/transcripts/hearing/)
Quelle: Why Sun Co-Founder Scott McNealy Supports The Romney-Ryan Ticket http://techpresident.com/news/22727/why-sun-co-founder-scott-mcnealy-supports-romney-ryan-ticket
“Open source is free like a puppy is free.”
Open source 'is free like a puppy is free' says Sun boss, Andrew Donoghue, 8 June 2005, ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-is-free-like-a-puppy-is-free-says-sun-boss-3039202713/,
