Schwartz Johnathan

Schwartz Johnathan

Johnathan Jan Schwartz (engl. Jonathan Ian Schwartz, sort. On October 20, 1965) — till February 3rd, 2010 was the president and the chief executive of SUN Microsystems company. Since 2010 headed Taleo.

Origin: On one quarter the Hindu, on one quarter the Welshman (from mother), on one quarter the Hungarian and on one quarter Russian (from the father).

Career

Johnathan Schwartz was employed in Sun Microsystems in 1996, as a result of merger of the Lighthouse Design company founded by it in which he was a chief executive officer. Lighthouse Design specialized in software development.

Exactly ten years later it released legendary Scott McNealy from the main duty. According to many industry analysts, Schwartz was appointed to this position because of his rather tough style of management. At this time the company entered fight against losses which it incurred five years in succession therefore Sun was in great need in carrying out restructuring, and McNealy was not ready to go for mass reductions and sale to the company. Meanwhile, workstations, servers and even Java technology could not compete with products of IBM on top and cheap, but powerful PCs from below any more.

Johnathan Schwartz zealous adherent of Open Source. At the same time he implemented the commitment into a philosophy of the company which from its giving began to stake on the open source software. At Schwartz Sun opened the source codes Solaris and Java, at him "stars" of Open Source — MySQL and Innotek were purchased. And the company tried to break a situation and to begin to earn from service model, characteristic of the free software.

Let's remind that Schwartz left Sun company practically right after it was purchased by Oracle. After the leaving it placed a series of posts in blogs in which discovered the mass of the interesting facts earlier not known to the public, including about the private meetings with Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft).

According to Schwartz, he could write the book about the experience got during the management of Sun, also he invited everyone to read it Twitter and the blog. However, since March 9 of this year from it no messages arrived.

Schwartz repeatedly was exposed to criticism for his policy and a position during the transaction with Oracle. Nevertheless, Schwartz on a post of the head of Sun is put by a number of successful innovations on the Niva of "cloud" technologies, from open source of technologies to effective data centers, storage systems and other products down to credit. In Sun he worked more than 10 years, since 1996 when Sun was purchased by Lighthouse Design where he also held the CEO's post. He started the career in McKinsey & Company.