For an avid Sun-watcher (presumably one laden with some stock) these are indeed heady times — with it’s stock doubling last year to $85 a share and its competitors caught napping, the company is seemingly at the zenith of its power. Sun Microsystems is being heralded as nothing less than the center of the computing universe.

To push this vision, this January Sun officially launched Jini, a software system that supposedly builds networks “on the fly.” Jini is the newest and most favorite brainchild of co-founder and Chief Scientist, Bill Joy, dreamt up in Sun’s skunkworks at Aspen, Colorado. Aspen, a watering hole for the rich, is full of vacationers jumping off the ski lifts into mink coats and waiting limousines. In short, it is a place where people visit to indulge in some good, old-fashioned networking — both on the slopes and off.

But Bill Joy’s motivation for shifting office space from being CEO Scott McNealy’s neighbor in Palo Alto was hardly to brush shoulders with the elite. It was more a simple desire for detached contemplation, a task impossible to achieve while in the vicinity of the most garrulous CEO on this planet. “Every 10 minutes,” chuckles Joy, “Scott would bother me with another one of his crazy ideas.”
Scott McNealy, who is rumored to divide his time equally between running Sun and concocting witticisms to charm the Press, was recently spotted detailing the future of computing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Is Sun and snow a lethal combination? When quizzed about how the relaxing slopes of Aspen allow for concentrated thinking, Mike Clary, the General Manager of the Jini project, says slightly miffed, “We work very hard here at Aspen.”

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