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McNealy defends value of IT in business
Created: 10/30/2007
Video description: At the SunNetwork 2003 conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy debates with writer Nicholas Carr, whose article "IT Doesn't Matter" appeared in the Harvard Business Review earlier this year. They discuss whether information technology continues to give companies a competitive advantage.

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