Two interesting items stood out for me:
1) Sun is launching a new software partnership with Google:
Google’s got the platform, and we’ve got the computing environments, so it’s a natural. We target the big problems. That’s what Sun is good at. That’s where Microsoft doesn’t scale and where IBM gets too expensive.
So what are they going to develop together? That's the $2.2 billion dollar question.
2) McNealy defines Web 2.0, as "the participation age:"
If you ain’t on the Internet, you aren’t participating in the greatest accumulation of creativity on the planet ever—look at Wikipedia, instant messaging, blogging, podcasting, home shopping, telemedicine, home banking, distance learning, voice over IP. The problem is that three in four folks on the earth aren’t there yet. There’s a huge digital divide. Our mission is to provide the infrastructure that powers the participation age. But our cause is to eliminate the digital divide. That’s personal.
And that's a nice thought.
Coupled with sub $100 computers and low cost wifi access, we will be set to enter a new age, perhaps a new look for democracy as we know it.
Keywords: blogging, democracy, distance learning, Google, MIT, podcasting, Scott McNealy, social software, Sun Microsystems, VoIP, Web 2.0, wifi, Wikipedia
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