Bill Joy on Sun's downfall, Microsoft's prospects, green tech (q&a)

Technology News (May 25 2010) Fossil Fuel

1. Though he helped start Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy has been spent the last five years thinking a lot more about solar energy than about that other Sun. "It's early days," Joy said of the green-technology industry he now focuses on as a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins. "It's like the Internet before the Netscape IPO." But, he said, there are needs in his new field that are quite different from those encountered by most Internet ventures. "Most Internet companies don't make anything other than software or a Web site," Joy said. "They don't have factories like you'd see in China or Taiwan. Starting a lot of these companies is a lot more like trying to create a manufacturing base." (Read Full Article)

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