The New Barbarians
Over the top cover story (Forbes) about Bill Coleman (Sun, BEA, and now, Cassatt) and his quest to push virtualization and agile architectures to replace massive proprietary hardware/software solutions in large organizations.
William Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution. They are embracing simplicity, unlocking prodigious new power and cutting tech costs by up to 90%, threatening the Silicon Valley plutocracy.
Coleman doesn't need to make another fortune in high-tech. He is 58 years old and--twice--has earned more than enough money to retire. The first time came in 1993, when Coleman was 45 and had just quit after eight years at Sun Microsystems. The second time came a few years later, after he cofounded BEA Systems, a $1.2 billion (sales) maker of Web software (known as Bill, he is the "B" in BEA); in the bubble his net worth approached the billion-dollar mark. Yet here he is, chasing another tech boom. It's like an addiction, he says. He can't stop himself.
"This next wave is going to be bigger than anything that came before it" says Coleman.
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