Jonathan I. Schwartz
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Jonathan Schwartz speaking at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA |
For other people with the same name, see Jonathan Schwartz.
Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born
October 20,
1965) is the current President and
CEO of
Sun Microsystems.
Schwartz attended
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in
Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated in
1983. He spent freshman year of college at
Carnegie Mellon University in
1983-
1984, and then transferred to
Wesleyan University, where he studied
Economics and
Mathematics.
Schwartz started his career in
1987 at
McKinsey & Company in
New York City. In
1989, Schwartz left McKinsey and moved to
Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he lived and worked at
Lighthouse Design. In the early 1990s, Lighthouse Design moved to
San Mateo, California. At some point, Schwartz became
chief executive officer of Lighthouse.
In
1996, Lighthouse was acquired by
Sun Microsystems . Schwartz became the director of product marketing for
JavaSoft in
1997, and then transitioned through a series of 5 vice president positions. In
2004, Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer of Sun . On April 24,
2006, he replaced
Scott McNealy as CEO.
Schwartz regularly promotes his view that the
Information Age has given way to a "Participation Age," in which people create news, ideas, and entertainment as well as consuming them.
Kalin, Sari (June 1996). "
PC Expo: Sun buys object developer". Accessed on
August 25,
2005.
Forbes.com profile for Jonathan Schwartz. Accessed on
August 25,
2005.
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Sun joins open-source-hating corporate club -
Techworld.com,
April 11, 2005. Article where Schwartz felt the
GPL was being used "as a tool allowing United States businesses to pillage developing countries of their intellectual property."
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Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog and other Sun Java Blogs *
Sun Microsystems's official Jonathan I. Schwartz bio*
Jonathan Schwartz's (corporate) blog
