Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Quick Question...

The green represents developers as yet to download the development environment most up to date with our Java platforms SE 6, EE 5 and ME profiles ?

Posted by Danny Coward on December 15, 2006 at 05:14 PM PST #

The green represents developers as yet to download the development environment most up to date with our Java platforms SE 6, EE 5 and ME profiles ?

Posted by Danny Coward on December 15, 2006 at 05:15 PM PST #

Considering the link, I'll say it's a map of Netbeans downloads?

Posted by Bill on December 15, 2006 at 05:28 PM PST #

Too few to be Java downloads... Solaris downloads?

Posted by Jon Raphaelson on December 15, 2006 at 05:44 PM PST #

netbean software installation? so less in china

Posted by ryan qian on December 15, 2006 at 05:45 PM PST #

People with broadband access.

Posted by Joe on December 15, 2006 at 05:49 PM PST #

I'll take a guess... a couple of guesses all with the same theme, ranging from the least to most specific. - global power consumption density - global power consumption density related to computing equipment - global power consumption density related to enterprise class computing equipment Sun has been up to some pretty neat stuff in terms of power consumption in the rack & big compute rooms. Neat stuff. Seems to be a striking competitive advantage from this layman's perspective.

Posted by Bill Bumgarner on December 15, 2006 at 05:52 PM PST #

Let's see... the number of satisfied Sun customers? :)) Okay, maybe the geographic representation of Java-enabled phones? Best, Mihai

Posted by mihai sumedre on December 15, 2006 at 05:57 PM PST #

Bridging the global divide?

Posted by Andrew on December 15, 2006 at 06:06 PM PST #

Bridging the global divide?

Posted by Andrew on December 15, 2006 at 06:07 PM PST #

Power usage in key datacenters?

Posted by Rackhelp on December 15, 2006 at 06:08 PM PST #

Power usage in key datacenters?

Posted by Rackhelp on December 15, 2006 at 06:09 PM PST #

Looks like Sun installations.

Posted by Charles R Martin on December 15, 2006 at 06:11 PM PST #

That is a lot of NetBeans developers!

Posted by Chris on December 15, 2006 at 06:27 PM PST #

Concentration of servers/computing power in the world?

Posted by Ammar Zolkipli on December 15, 2006 at 06:38 PM PST #

My guess would be internet connectivity of some description. Possibly gigibit Points of Presence? Doesn't seem to be enough in canada, china + the rest of asia though... IPV6? In that case NZ is probably missrepresented. Maybe it is locations of net beans downloads as that it where the image links to? Still I can't think of any reason why China + Canada would miss out..

Posted by James Brunskill on December 15, 2006 at 06:40 PM PST #

Nice, GeoIPs of netbeans downloads ;) Did you check any correlations with this one?: http://labs.google.com/papers/sawzall-20030814.gif

Posted by Rainer on December 15, 2006 at 06:44 PM PST #

Does purple represent the areas of highest energy use?

Posted by Gerald Hilts on December 15, 2006 at 06:53 PM PST #

the parts of the world that use the most power? :)

Posted by nacho on December 15, 2006 at 07:02 PM PST #

A location map (though at this zoom level its more like location-based density map) of netbeans downloaders? Since I'm here I'd like to take the opportunity to say that I'm impressed with your leadership so far. I really am. You're an out-of-the-box thinker.

Posted by jeremiah johnson on December 15, 2006 at 07:23 PM PST #

I'd guess GDP per person (as shown by the pink areas of Japan and South Korea vs. the rest of Asia) multiplied by population density (as shown by the distribution of the pink areas within the USA).

Posted by Elmar Schraml on December 15, 2006 at 07:28 PM PST #

The places on our planet with the highest energy consumption.

Posted by Maggie Sergio on December 15, 2006 at 07:43 PM PST #

location/density of netbeans downloads? :)

Posted by Davanum Srinivas on December 15, 2006 at 07:58 PM PST #

location/density of Java6 downloads?

Posted by Davanum Srinivas on December 15, 2006 at 08:00 PM PST #

Netbeans downloads?

Posted by Thyaga on December 15, 2006 at 08:03 PM PST #

Power consumption [density]?

Posted by Steve Dispensa on December 15, 2006 at 08:04 PM PST #

NetBeans worldTour?

Posted by Ernesto on December 15, 2006 at 08:18 PM PST #

The NetBeans worldTour? All the places where the NetBeans worldTour CD has been sent or maybe the NetBeans world domination map? :)

Posted by Ernesto on December 15, 2006 at 08:23 PM PST #

My first guess would have been power consumption (kWh), but I'd expect China to look a lot hotter than that-- so my official guess is mobile device concentrations (cell phones, etc).

Posted by rama on December 15, 2006 at 08:26 PM PST #

I was going to guess that it was some sort of scattermap of OpenSolaris downloads. Then I realized it's clickable and it leads to NetBeans downloads. So, I'm guessing it's a mashup of google earth and data from your netbeans download log. db

Posted by David Berlind on December 15, 2006 at 08:33 PM PST #

Distribution of happy SUNW shareholders? Just kidding. I'm assuming these are customers?

Posted by Bryan Grayson on December 15, 2006 at 09:13 PM PST #

Sun's upcoming layoff areas :)

Posted by SR on December 15, 2006 at 10:43 PM PST #

I guess the link gives it away, as several commenters already mentioned. Obviously, download activity will correlate with internet bandwidth availability throughout the world, which also correlates with the availability of electricity (larger image). As a result, you won't see much activity coming from, say, central Africa. However, the pattern did hold a few surprises. I'm surprised, for example, that there is little activity coming from India. Maybe Indian software communities use mostly Microsoft technology?

Posted by Talal Al-Tamimi on December 16, 2006 at 12:38 AM PST #

When you click on the Google Earth Image , It opens the Netbeans Download Page , Perhaps the Pink area represents the page where the maximum download has taken place , Just my 2 Cent :)

Posted by Austin Joseph on December 16, 2006 at 01:20 AM PST #

Google searches being performed around the world?

Posted by Laurence Veale on December 16, 2006 at 01:41 AM PST #

Would love to see other IDEs' data for a comparison ;-)

Posted by Alex Lam on December 16, 2006 at 02:00 AM PST #

The purple represents where the Solaris OS is used.

Posted by David Morris on December 16, 2006 at 02:41 AM PST #

I guess the link gives it away, as several commenters already mentioned. Obviously, download activity will correlate with internet bandwidth availability throughout the world, which also correlates with the availability of electricity (larger image). As a result, you won't see much activity coming from, say, central Africa. However, the pattern did hold a few surprises. I'm surprised, for example, that there is little activity coming from India. Maybe Indian software communities use mostly Microsoft technology?

Posted by Talal Al-Tamimi on December 16, 2006 at 03:08 AM PST #

something related to datacenters, maybe power consumption

Posted by Daniel Scocco on December 16, 2006 at 04:20 AM PST #

The green represents wireLESS high speed growth opportunities and java me and hence a lot of growth left for Sun.

Posted by Jim H on December 16, 2006 at 08:29 AM PST #

The highest concentration of data/computing centers.

Posted by John Carver on December 16, 2006 at 10:06 AM PST #

Is it a closeup on the marks on your forehead?

Posted by Hugo Heden on December 16, 2006 at 12:31 PM PST #

I'll guess: downloads of Netbeans, since the release of Java SE 6.

Posted by Simon Brocklehurst on December 16, 2006 at 12:35 PM PST #

Netbeans downloads! :-D

Posted by Paolo Gagliardi on December 16, 2006 at 02:14 PM PST #

Certainly a guess. I think it is the global use of Sun Equipment around the globe. Well if this is true there a lot of green to adress. Let's do IT. Volume drives Value is as true as Value creates Volume. So let's create values to communities and people, make this map Sun-purple! Aad Koppenhol

Posted by Aad Koppenhol on December 16, 2006 at 02:16 PM PST #

Certainly a guess. I think it is the global use of Sun Equipment around the globe. Well if this is true there a lot of green to adress. Let's do IT. Volume drives Value is as true as Value creates Volume. So let's create values to communities and people, make this map Sun-purple! Aad Koppenhol

Posted by Aad Koppenhol on December 16, 2006 at 02:18 PM PST #

It's picture of the world to demonstrate the platform is the network and that the network is the computer. Additionally it demonstrates the buildout to date and the areas still to plug in to that platform. Sun is one with the platform and it's revenues and growth will continue to be beneifted from such. Sun's revenue stream will be similiar to that of a desert oasis that is fed from many underground streams. In this photo one is allowed to see the dynamics of what is to come and from where. The how is even easier if one can see beyond their outstretched hand.

Posted by John DiAnni on December 16, 2006 at 02:43 PM PST #

This is a satellite image of the Earth superposed with a highly non-random distribution of pink dots.

Posted by J. Oker on December 16, 2006 at 02:57 PM PST #

Jonathan, Depicts the 'infrared heat signature' (BIG energy usage) within this global view photograph. A 'God's eye view' of planet EARTH. Enjoy the Holidays,

Posted by William R. Walling on December 16, 2006 at 03:07 PM PST #

May be it represents the landmasses that are likely to be submerged as a result of global warming?!

Posted by Sivakumar S on December 16, 2006 at 05:22 PM PST #

I'll bite: the purple is where either OpenSolaris has been downloaded from or where Java has been downloaded from.

Posted by Swashbuckler on December 16, 2006 at 07:13 PM PST #

Those are the exact same locations that visit Blastwave.org and then download open source software for Solaris.

Posted by Dennis Clarke on December 16, 2006 at 10:09 PM PST #

Seems related to your previous blog posting... "finally had a positive meeting with an investor related to our open source strategy (developers get it, investors have had a harder time). The key? I had the perfect picture with me - actually a mashup. Stay tuned, I'll show it here next week." and Sun's open source and bridging the digital divide strategy?

Posted by sg on December 16, 2006 at 10:27 PM PST #

Global City lights. Here's a much better picture from NASA http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA02991.jpg

Posted by Ameer Deen on December 17, 2006 at 01:29 AM PST #

It's very similar to my map at http://osgeek.blogspot.com :-)

Posted by osgeek on December 17, 2006 at 06:30 AM PST #

Its got to be network capacity/performance - the green South Africa and NZ give it away ??

Posted by roger hughes on December 17, 2006 at 09:39 AM PST #

I am sure it can't be your call centers but data centers? May be!

Posted by Ashish on December 17, 2006 at 11:54 AM PST #

. . . That tomorrow is forecasted to be a precipitation-free SUNny day??? I hope!

Posted by da bears on December 17, 2006 at 07:30 PM PST #

Households containing a Nintendo Wii?

Posted by The Meal Vandal on December 17, 2006 at 09:32 PM PST #

Logical guess - Pink point represents bandwidth used per person. Japan(3G),Korea,USA & UK(Europe) represents highest bandwidth eater countries. Vijay.

Posted by Vijay on December 17, 2006 at 10:44 PM PST #

Is it where the employees are?

Posted by David Griffiths on December 18, 2006 at 12:13 AM PST #

Jonathan wants to track the downloads of Solaris 10. He had his programmers embed an ip tracking program in the download and reports back to him in real time:)

The programmers also put in an innovator reporting mechanism that reports to Jonathan how innovative the downloader is and assigns a color code scheme to the innovator. Jon will reveal his color coding scheme once 50 million Solaris 10 licenses are reached.

Not very many innovators in Canada eh.

Posted by Dale Robinson on December 18, 2006 at 12:34 AM PST #

It is the tracking of ISO containers - the Suns Black box systems

Posted by Phil J on December 18, 2006 at 02:48 AM PST #

It shows that Greenland is a really cold place. But not as much as Antarctica. I quite don't get those pink dots over us, europe and asia.

Posted by Davi Pires on December 18, 2006 at 06:14 AM PST #

It presents the density of Web server, right?

Posted by Le Duc Bao on December 18, 2006 at 06:24 AM PST #

Either the use of someone's mapping application without attribution or proof that Denmark is one of the largest countries on the planet.

Posted by Herm on December 18, 2006 at 06:32 AM PST #

I would like to see it more zoomable, whatever it is (it is computer/power/java/netbeans related, definitelly). Give me the details! :-)

Posted by Vojtech on December 18, 2006 at 06:58 AM PST #

Number of people wondering what use a thumper is without iSCSI target support in Solaris 10? :-) Seriously though, despite the link, I'm guessing power usage.

Posted by Ceri Davies on December 18, 2006 at 07:14 AM PST #

Looks like something related to power consumption or carbon emissions? Or maybe this is a map of cities visited by a Sun salesperson?

Posted by Adam on December 18, 2006 at 08:46 AM PST #

Since clicking on the image points to netbeans 5.5's download page, I'm tempted to say that these are related to netbeans downloads... I could be wrong, CEOs being devious and all...

Posted by Christopher Mahan on December 18, 2006 at 01:24 PM PST #

btw .. you make a very nice elf, (albeit a little crazy about java):
http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=d55ef87dbeb318d552047a8G06121222

Posted by Jon E on December 18, 2006 at 02:38 PM PST #

Energy Consumption Per Capita

Posted by Naveen Khanna on December 18, 2006 at 02:44 PM PST #

The pink area with highest density of proprietary software where open-source software are replacing.

Posted by Elvin on December 18, 2006 at 07:26 PM PST #

The location of web 2.0 startups running Java? ... if it were the animated google map, the blinking would be the death of one and then the birth of a replacement one.

Posted by Dan on December 19, 2006 at 03:48 AM PST #

Hi, the link refrence says netbeans 5.5 download. I have also downloaded netbeans from Iran. netbeans is much better than Eclipse. but lack the number of plugins ecipse have. may be if you put some resource to complete JSR 198 in eclipse, future modules become compatible with both IDE's and you can get that momentum netbeans deserve.

Posted by Arash Rajaeeyan on December 19, 2006 at 05:56 AM PST #

Reference: SunFire V210 Server. What is the difference between part ordering numbers: N31-XMB1B2512HA and N31-XM41C1512HA ???? I tried Sun Search and it came up as not found for bath? Thanks, Jim

Posted by Jim Hopke on December 19, 2006 at 07:16 AM PST #

It is where customers demand value for solutions - everywhere... I did a global map back in the Netscape days showing all the countries that had purchased my B2B ecommerce software - it was fun, we had 45 countries. Put of the herd theory in that no customer wants to be first.

Posted by Scott Jolly on December 19, 2006 at 09:00 AM PST #

My guess is market coverage for Sun's grid-computing initiatve.

Posted by Coli Hutcheson on December 19, 2006 at 09:10 AM PST #

Its what I asked for on my blog when you launched Black Box. Its the location of the world's data centers. and they are 99% at today's sea level... if it *is* that then please let me know... i can call it another lazyweb reqyst sorted....

Posted by James Governor on December 19, 2006 at 09:29 AM PST #

Light polution

Posted by Mikel Manitius on December 19, 2006 at 12:13 PM PST #

If this a Netbeans download map, the real questions is how many people are really using it. I downloaded Netbeans 5 times, tried it 5 times, gave up. Borland's tools are 100x superior. Sun should give up doing Netbeans, it's far cheaper to buy others.

Posted by Java Dude on December 19, 2006 at 04:52 PM PST #

The purple on the maps represents web visitors, from various countries, who have visited the netbeans.info website.

Posted by Jonathan on December 19, 2006 at 08:44 PM PST #

Jonathan: All this info is great, but all I'm really interested in hearing from youis about making a profit Now!!!! How is it that a 13 Billion dallar company tries to pass off unprofitability, as being somewhat normmal , or in the future plan. Let's get real here please. Stop talking as much about content and technical detail and start talking more about numbers, dollars and cents.13 bilion dolars and no profit??? Cut the grease, or fat and show bottom line profitability. As a long time investor that's all I'm interested in. Revenue growth without profitabilty is meaningless. Not in the future, or trailing or next quarter, but now!!!! Please put some of that stuff on your warm and fuzzy technically strategic blogs. Thank You,

Posted by Joe Camarda on December 20, 2006 at 08:13 AM PST #

You'll see it wider if you have better FreeBSD and *BSD support. :)

Posted by Arab on December 20, 2006 at 11:21 PM PST #

Почему нет коментариев на русском? My Answer is : Net Beans 5.5 devel. Ajax (JMaki) technology Right?

Posted by Blin on December 21, 2006 at 03:24 AM PST #

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Posted by fantosha on December 21, 2006 at 03:38 AM PST #

Frankly Answers are rather dull. Everybody try to look at the map, but very last time to Anchor!!! NetBeanse & JMaki - forever!

Posted by Da Blin Blin on December 21, 2006 at 05:30 AM PST #