Ellison is an arrogant douche but he's absolutely right about Schwartz. Schwartz's high-level corporate strategy, as near as I could determine it, was to try to get people to like him by giving everything his company used to sell away for free and by doing "cool" things like blogging. The problems started before his stewardship, but he greatly accelerated them. Schwartz and his fellow execs should be ashamed at how much money they lost sitting atop one of the world's most valuable repositories of technical talent and intellectual property. An Ellison enema is exactly what Sun needs, or needed. Unfortunately it's about 5 years too late.