Scott McNealy's Historic First Live Video Stream - December 1992
Live from Palo Alto, California
Live from Palo Alto California it's sunny very nice day here we're trying a big new experiment I really hope this works could be very embarrassing we actually have press here checking this out to see what we're doing now we're doing a big experiment here using Sun technology.
If this works what we'd like you to do is email back to the address that you're going to see at the end of this thing saying that you saw it and you can help us out with this experiment.
We're going live to thousands of sun workstations around the Sun Network around the world some of you don't have enough bandwidth but we're getting to We Believe about 90 percent hopefully of the sun sites around the world.
I'd like to first off say good morning to everybody on the west coast, I'd like to say good afternoon to everybody in the east, and I'd like to say good evening to everybody in Europe who's watching and a special greeting to all of you out there in Japan who stayed up all night just to watch this five minutes experiment.
The Technology
Now some of you are familiar with the pre-recorded video capabilities of the workstation and we've made some trade-offs here. We've gone to a smaller screen to allow you to go live as opposed to pre-recorded with better video and a larger environment so that you get the intimacy and the embarrassment of watching me live.
Now it is live it's not a trick. I know some of you think we may be doing something magical well I brought proof.
[Holds up newspaper]
What we have here is today's San Jose Mercury News probably can't see it but this is actually today's date and we have IBM to announce cuts today in Workforce manufacturing. IBM today announced 25,000 more layoffs they announced a six billion dollar write-off and their stock is trading at an all-time low today on the New York Stock Exchange. That's proof that this is live and that this is this morning.
So for those of you who aren't on a color workstation I also want to show off my bright green sweater... relax those of you who have color workstations I'm just kidding it's actually a red sweater. I figured I'd wear red given the holiday season.
Why This Matters
Now this technology is really important why? Because Macs and PCs can't do this. Eat Your Heart Out Bill Gates.
This communication and the power that it brings to the marketplace will help us sell computers and will help make us a more productive computer company.
Thank You
Now my real main purpose here is to say thank you.
You've all worked incredibly hard you really kicked butt in 1992 and we did that in the face of the toughest economy I have seen in the 11 years I've been at Sun Microsystems.
You all are very talented very focused and very reliable but most importantly you all worked very very hard in the last 12 months. I appreciate it the management team appreciates it and mostly the people who all have jobs here at Sun Microsystems appreciate the efforts that each and every one of you have made to make Sun such a successful and exciting place to work.
We've gained market share we've gained momentum we have just done a fabulous job in 1992.
Looking Ahead to 1993
We worked hard but we're going to have an even more exciting and more successful 1993:
Model 41s are now shipping they're going out the door and we're going to have a very very good
MicroSPARC SuperSPARC kind of 1993Solaris 2.1 went out on plan this month and is shipping and we have the hottest operating
environment 32-bit operating environment in the worldMicrosoft had better watch out with NT we're coming after them big time and bookings
are rolling in
Salesforce has just been doing a great job we're off to a really great start on decade number two.
Holiday Wishes
Finally I'd like to wish you all the best for a great holiday season I hope it's the best ever that you've ever had. Thanks to your family to your friends to all the loved ones who helped support you during the very exciting and challenging year that 1992 was.
Enjoy the holidays be safe relax.
I'd like to say a special thanks to all of those of you in sales and operations and operation support who are going to help finish out the quarter here for us that's very important. I'd like to thank you for spending time during the holiday seasons to go do that.
Go charge your batteries come back in 1993 well rested we're going to go out and kick butt and have some major league fun next year.
Thanks gang ho ho ho!
This historic broadcast marked one of the first corporate live video streams, demonstrating Sun Microsystems' technological capabilities to employees worldwide.
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