McNealy: ClOs don't want to be chief integration

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OTTAWA ― For Scott McNealy, much of today's IT industry resembles the automotive world of the 1920s. IT companies are designing custom-built data systems that look like "jalopies," says the chairman, president and CEO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems Inc. But that will soon change, says McNealy, who predicts a "massive standardization" in the way technology is deployed and developed. "Imagine if I had an airplane hangar at home, I designed my own plane from different parts, and I told you to fly it," he told several hundred members of Ottawa's IT community, who were attending the technology executive breakfast organized by the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation late last month. "It wouldn't be safe, yet that's what we're doing (in the high-tech sector)."