Scott McNealy  Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun
Microsystems, cofounded the company in 1982, not long after the
introduction of the IBM PC. Over the last 19 years, McNealy has
been on a mission to prove his company's slogan: "The network is
the computer." According to McNealy, the full value of the
computer can be realized only by linking PCs, workstations,
servers, and every other form of hardware.  Not surprisingly,
Sun's mission has put it on a collision course with Microsoft, a
company that views the PC as the heart of the computing
paradigm. This has also led McNealy to champion consumer choice,
technology competition, and the open-source movement. "Through
the community process," says McNealy, "technology matures faster
than it would otherwise. But the real story is that the PC is no
longer the center of the computing universe."  Michael J.
Miller: In retrospect, what significant changes resulted from
the advent of the PC?  Scott McNealy: The PC represents the
beginning of popular distributed comp