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02/17 08:58 DJ Sun Microsystems CEO: Co Ready To Meet Internet Demand
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NEW YORK --Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (SUNW) chief
executive, said his company's microprocessors are fast enough right now to
power the growing number of Internet transactions spurred by the success of
companies such as eBay Inc. (EBAY) and Google Inc. (GOOG).
"Google's number one challenge in their data center is power - getting power
in and...cooling the chips off," McNealy said in a CNBC interview Friday from
the Business Council's CEO Summit in Boca Raton, Fla. "We didn't think about
all these search loads a couple of years ago," he added.
Sixty percent of data created every day is archived, according to McNealy,
and the company is focusing on the search and retrieval of information.
"The world is moving very quickly, and if you don't adapt, you get stuck,"
McNealy said.
McNealy also said he expects software pricing to change soon as more
companies move toward open-source software, where manufacturing and
engineering costs are zero. He said computer maker Sun already has
open-sourced its entire fleet of software.
-By Henry Sanderson, Dow Jones Newswires; 201 -938 -4046;
henry.sanderson@dowjones.com
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