When you’re on your way out of a job, there’s a lot of fun ways to exit. Some choose to take all the staplers in the office, some show up to the last day in shorts, some pull a Jerry Maguire. And some tweet out a haiku.
That’s exactly what Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz did tonight. Here’s his tweet:
Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more
Really, what more needs to be said?
Schwartz had been serving as Sun’s CEO since 2006; prior to that he was the company’s COO. It has been known that he would resign for several days now following Sun’s sale to Oracle, which the EU just approved.
Schwartz has always enjoyed this type of public discourse, as he continued to blog in a time when very few CEOs would dare do such a thing. His latest post was on January 27, describing what he’d be doing next.
As for where life takes me next, you should follow me via Twitter at openjonathan to find out. I’ll also be rehosting this blog (and again, stay tuned to Twitter by following me here). I expect to do my part to keep things interesting.
Indeed. Tonight he started that off with a bang (and we love the two self-promotion links).
He’s a pretty awesome guy, I’ll be following his blog wherever he takes it.
My boyfriend and I broke up a month ago. yeah.. i’m young ,beautiful,lonely and still
hurting.i maybe need someone to love..still..
My friends told me about —–Agegapsingles.com —–told It’s the best place to meet an older boyfriend or a younger one. ..So i got a username(Anny Bely) there in order to find a new boyfriend.i just don’t know if it’s right !!!!
Is your boyfriend a wealthy Nigerian business man?
I’m sure it was, and he probably left her after the account info she gave didn’t have any money.
That was very impulsive. Your comment lacks objectivity. Have you ever thought of how greed has made many fall victim to scenarios that have probably fed your sense of judgement? Nigerians are great People
Do you mind not insulting Nigerians? Last I heard, Bernie Madoff was American.
didn’t know being called wealthy was insulting?!
what I will insult is the domain name of that website, should be braingapsingles if anyone thinks there will be anyone who signs up to such a stupidly named site!
and AbdulMutallab was a Nigerian…
And last I heard AbdulMutallab was a Nigerian…what’s your point?
He wouldnt insult nigerians, if they werent always the ones sending us emails about our wealthy nigerian uncle who died(who we never knew about) and now we need to pay a bunch of money to help get our “inheritance” out of limbo.
Oh yeah and the XMAS day airline thing. That was a minor blemish as well.
I even came up with a little song.
Bomb in your pants, bomb in your pants,
looking like a fool with your bomb in your pants.
LOL, I don’t know what’s worse, these BMW000 postings of those momo shackleford postings.
Too bad its not a haiku, since its more than 3 sentences, and the sentences should be 5,7,5 syllables…
But it is
Fi Nan Cial Cri sis
Stalled too ma ny cus tom ers
C E O no more
5-7-5
Uh, Jon, its 15 years of total lack of innovation and competitive response that brought Sun down, not last year’s fin crisis. Sure Java, but no money in free. Schwartz did nothing to help Sun, nor did his predecessor Scott McNealy. McNealy spent years taking cheap potshots at Gates when he should have been innovating.
If there’s no money in free, then what will become of Twitter & Facebook?
How is this booze? (no not news…most come here looking for booze)
Sunrise, Sunset. Tomorrow’s a new day. I’m sure there’s a bright future out there for Jonathan. Great letter.
We’ll see how ElliSun does now.
Did he resign via twitter or give a goodbye message on twitter? The title of this post sounds like the former, whereas the post itself indicates that this already known and thus the latter
Summary of Sun: http://bit.ly/aIN5fD
Agreed, this sounds more of a goodbye of known resignation. The headline here seems a bit sensationalist, from that POV.
“Schwartz had been surving as Sun’s CEO since 2006″ should be “Schwartz had been serving as Sun’s CEO since 2006″
Right?
Thank you, MG, because that was bugging me for no reason.
I cant even spell grammer but now I’m itching to say shouldn’t “had been serving as” have been “had served as”.
Damn you C.K! You make me what I most despise.
Perhaps he started off with ’surviving’ ?
!! You spelled “serve” wrong – “been surving”. Gah!
This man is now my hero.
I propose that all tweets from now on must be in haiku form
Oh MG!!! It’s a Haiku. You love Haikus!
http://reviewinhaiku.com
in fact it’s not a haiku, doesn’t contain the seasonal reference (financial crisis ain’t one btw). it’s just a poem in english following haiku’ metric.
Spencer- Spare us your self promotion- wasn’t the hooker bad enough above but now you had to turn to pimping
@Dave
Its hardly self-promotion.
Read the about page:
http://reviewinhaiku.com/about
It’s site by MG Siegler. Nice site btw.
@Sadiq- Does #Haiku post on twitter have anything to do with revviewHaiku? Or the post via twitter? Maybe I missed something.
Like MG’s articles but this promotion does not seem to fit- let us know if there is any correlation.
should have inserted “http://reviewinhaiku.com/about”
Does this have ‘anything’ to do with Jonathan Schwartz twitter post?
It’s really quite simple.
This article is about Haiku’s. MG Siegler is a fan of Haikus. Which is why he has a whole website dedicated to them.
I then added the link in case others were not aware of his awesome haiku skills.
I didn’t think I had to link to the about page because I assumed people wouldn’t jump to conclusions.
After all, it was just a silly little comment. It barely meant anything anyway.
Coolest CEO ever!
+1- New Day
Coolest CEO ever? Really? I would say that he is a cool blogger and a cool haiku writer. But CEO? He’s been in charge or nearly in charge of Sun for a long time and has run that company into the ground. What is cool about that?
Went to Java site
Now all red and “Oracle”
Guess it’s really done.
It looks like they let him take his blog with him too.
Larry Ellison is taking over.
Just out of curiosity are Sun shareholders going to receive cash or Oracle stock for their shares in Sun?
During the dot com crash, I invested in both Cisco and Sun hoping they would recover. Cisco turned a tidy profit for me, but Sun just continued to sink and was a big loser for me.
Also I think the idea of CEOs blaming the financial crisis on their decline is NOT a good excuse. He shows no responsibility for Sun’s decline. Just blame it on someone or something else!
I thought Star office (Sun’s version of openoffice.org) had potential to compete with msft office but it failed miserably.
After every Sun comes “the cloud” – someone missed the memo
I actually read that as (the company) stalled too many customers. Like: recession + we took too long = bye bye JS.
True, if it reads the recession stalled too many customers from buying, then not as bold.
There is a significant difference between a man (whoever he may be) that resigns via twitter, and one who merely shares that he has done so after the fact, via twitter.
This blatant, and rather crass sensationalism will only hurt you in the long run.
when sun door closes
imaginary clouds pass
just switch the lights on
Really? It counts as a haiku even if he can’t count syllables? With standards this lax, no wonder he can’t hold a job. lol
If it does not mention or invoke a season, it is not Haiku. One could stretch it and argue that “sun” implies summer, but not in this case.
Close, but Haiku needs more than just the meter.
my little pony makes a cute exit. the elfin world sheds a tear.
The guy offering this mickey mouse software was the former CEO of CitizenHawk until he was pushed out the door.
Now, he opened up shop 1 mile from his old office to aggrevate his former company.
Does a company really want to take legal advise from a computer geek?
He could cause harm to domainers but also to the companies buying his software
Well, don’t let the door hit you in the ass, Jonathon. Sun dropped 97% in value after November 2000, with absolutely no bounce off the floor. Instead of bashing Microsoft and pontificating about Java, it would have helped to build real value on top of what were some great servers.
The price of arrogance.
Schwartz drove Sun into the ground. Why would anyone listen to someone that destroyed a $14B in three years. I guess compared to Wall St, he did a great job…
Ah yes, the guy that managed on destroying any software that Sun touched is put in charge of the company – which he then proceeds to do nothing with. Amazing.
Rather than haiku, a lot of former Sun employees are probably wishing that Mr. Schwartz announced his resignation via seppuku.
Free software is a totally stupid idea. No self-respecting business uses free software, no wonder he was forced out by the board.
“Really, what more needs to be said?”
Apparently, two additional paragraphs and another quote.
All the best for Jonathan Schwartz from my side. Wish him good luck to find a the right next thing. Whatever it is.
A startup? Partner @ VC firm? Founding his own small fund?
another dumb post but mc idiot… can you write about real news? no, you cant, because your not a real journalist.
these bmw000 people have posts on dlisted and some of the other gossip sites so i was surprised a bot/person started posting these on tc. but there comes a time for everything. nothing is safe. the blind lee guy is kinda funny, but then i realised he’s racist. oh well. i personally like momar shackleford w.e his name is. dude is full of crappy goodness…
it’s true. i do!