Sun's John Gage joins Al Gore in clean-tech investing

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Mon, 06/09/2008 - 6:42pm

John Gage, the man who coined the phrase "the network is the computer," has left Sun Microsystems to become a venture capitalist.

Gage, Sun's fifth employee and its former chief researcher, will join the venerable firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to help grow its investments in clean technology....


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