Scott McNealy Keynotes at 2006 Sprint Application Developer Conference

January 5, 2007 -Sun Chairman Scott McNealy began his keynote address to more than 800 developers at the 2006 Sprint Application Developer Conference with the top 10 "developer nightmares."

The number one nightmare: Customers who know what they want.

The audience laughed, of course, but there was some nervous laughter mixed in with the response. By the end of his presentation, he had assured and demonstrated to developers how Sun's and Sprint's business models, products and services allow them to monetize fast- changing market opportunities to create the applications customers really want.

During his presentation, McNealy reinforced how both Sun and Sprint are delivering upon promises made to position the developer community with the tools, networks and systems in the Participation Age.

"Sun's goal is to eliminate the digital divide. Three out of four people, or three-quarters of the world is not connected," McNealy said. "This isn't just touchy-feely, it makes economic sense. We'll do this through sharing our strategy since 1982. In fact we have donated over thirty million lines of code, and we opened up our crown jewel, Java, on my birthday."

Commenting on Sprint's role in the Participation Age, McNealy added, "Sun is working with companies who are building large communities, those with large subscriber bases. Sprint is an obvious example of such a company and we think their 4G network, which we're helping them power, will be impressive. In fact, Sprint is tapping into $10 Billion in Sun R&D to help expand their base and deliver the services required to keep customers around, and to keep developers developing the next big applications."

Arshan Poursohi & Scott McNealy

McNealy reminded the audience that "volume drives value" and encouraged those who haven't already, to join the Java Communities to tap into the $110 Billion in IT spending underway on mobile applications and Java-based applications. "It's open, it's free and you can develop any type of application for any kind of device. Java powers six Billion devices and it's indemnified. Oh yea, did I mention it's free?"