Wharton Professor Eric Clemons, a noted expert on the strategic implications of information technology spoke at Supernova 2008 about monetization models for the next generation of Internet businesses. Due to a medical issue, Eric was unable to fly out to the conference, so he recorded his remarks, and engaged in a live Q&A session via videoconference. His PowerPoint presentation (PDF) is also available.
In this interview with Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, we discuss the things that are on his radar as changing the tech industry over the next 10 years. I asked him about being the “poster child” for CEO bloggers, and we talk about how “the Network is the Computer” is more accurate today than ever.
We talk about consumer trends and how they are shifting the needs in data centers and servers.
He discusses the MySQL acquisition and Sun’s long term position on open source as a competitive advantage. There’s a discussion of cloud computing, mobile and gaming, and what the kids today are using that will affect tech in the long run.
Jonathan Schwartz is one of the speakers at Supernova 2008, and this is just a preview of what you can learn from him and other speakers, June 16th - 18th at the conference.
Lili Cheng has done much at Microsoft, from some of the earliest experimenting with v-chat to the user experience for Vista. Lili is currently a Director in Microsoft Research focusing on “creative systems”- how people interact and use tools to create projects.
In this conversation over Skype, she describes some of the things that have her attention, including social networks in a business context, as well as how kids can learn programming using what they know about gaming.
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