Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems, and Jon Schwartz, his CEO, remodeled Sun in the last two years after what I would call ‘the RedHat example’, as being most successful in free and open-source software (FOSS). The strategic question for Sun always was ‘how it would capitalize on the success of Java?’

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During my time in the industry, one of my tasks was to set up a global core banking platform, as a shared service centrally. For this to happen, I also had to manage the setup of two global data centres, with the plan to evolve these towards a global application hosting centre, for service-oriented architecture-based application frameworks. At the time I pursued a multi-sourcing strategy, with project management, enterprise architecture as well as technology subject matter expertise, provided internally, to complement the service provider skills, although the vendors have been multinationals in their own right.