InfoWorld: All Things Under the Sun

“Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s chief strategy officer, on July 1 will
assume the role of executive vice president of software and will
inherit a set of major challenges. In particular, Schwartz needs to
put Sun’s Linux house in order, get IT managers excited about a
range of products marketed under the Sun ONE (Open Net Environment)
banner, and recapture the industry momentum the company has lost in
the wake of being late to embrace and understand Web services. In
an interview with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard and Test
Center Director Steve Gillmor, Schwartz defends all things under
the Sun.

“InfoWorld: To many people in the industry, it seems
like Sun has this knee-jerk aversion to XML and anything to do with
Microsoft. Under your leadership, what will Sun’s position on XML
be?

“Schwartz: I wouldn’t argue with anybody that XML is a better
portable data platform than almost anything else. But is XML going
to be the dominant format for the propagation of information? I
don’t believe so. I believe it will be the most prevalent for
static data, and specifically for textual data. But I think it is a
complete fallacy to assume that AOL-Time Warner is going to start
broadcasting Harry Potter in XML. They’re not. I believe that media
types will be the dominant content format on the Web; therefore,
MPEG 2 and 4 and all of its progeny, to my mind, are going to be
the dominant content type…”

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