McNealy Created Millions of Jobs?

cahiha writes "In his blog, Jonathan Schwartz argues that Scott McNealy is single-handedly responsible for making network computing a reality. His timeline is something like that in 1992, the industry was focused on 'Chicago' (Windows 95), while McNealy bravely went his own way-- 'the network is the computer.' He goes on to claim that 'There is no single individual who has created more jobs around the world than [Scott McNealy]. [...] I'm not talking hundreds or thousands of jobs, I'm talking millions.' I have trouble following his argument: client/server computing and distributed computing were already widely available and widely used in the early 1990s. The defining applications of the emerging Internet were, not Java, but Apache, Netscape, and Perl. Sun's biggest response to Chicago was to attempt to establish Java as the predominant desktop application delivery platform, something they have not succeeded at so far. So, what do you think: is Schwartz right in giving credit to McNealy for creating 'millions' of jobs? Or has Sun been a company on the decline since the mid-1990s, only temporarily buoyed by the Internet bubble?"

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Credit for millions of jobs??

[Anonymous Coward]

This is laughable.

The _only_ reason that millions of jobs were created was because of the roaring success of the Internet accessible to the masses.

If anyone should be thanked, it should be Bill Gates and Microsoft for making computers easier to use for a vast majority of the population.

Re:What about...

[deanj]

Al Gore invented the internet....he said so himself in numerous speeches. Let him go after Manbearpig. It seems to be what he's destined for.