Scott McNealy

Interview

• "Future applications of Java" (Roma, 17-10-1996)

Biography

After graduating in Economics from Harvard University, McNealy obtained an MBA from Stanford University. He is chairman of Sun Microsystems the world's leading provider of UNIX workstations, servers and related software and hardware technologies based on open, distributed, network computing.

Under the leadership of co-founder Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Inc. has become one of America's fastest-growing companies, according to Fortune. The 40-year-old chief executive is leading "the most efficient company in the industry," says Business Week, which also credits McNealy with having "proved to his doubters that he can run a multibillion-dollar company by making Sun Microsystems the model for the entire industry, including IBM."

McNealy is currently chairman of the board, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems Sun is the parent company of all Sun subsidiaries and operating companies. The $4.7 billion corporation ranks 120 on the Fortune 500.

McNealy has become an industry spokesman for open computer systems and a chief proponent of client-server, peer computing. He serves as vice chairman for Trade of the Computer Systems Policy Project, a consortium of 13 of the largest U.S. computer companies that addresses public policy issues affecting the industry and the country. He is also on the board of directors of Iwerks Entertainment and the Santa Clara County Manufacturers Board.