Rich Sharples’ Blog

• kids are off school today and plan on spending all day in the pool - i’m not in the least bit jealous of course. #
• Looking at JAVA after hours - I think I need to kiss my stock good-bye. Not that I’m bitter that I wasn’t able to unload it yesterday ;< #
• The good news is we won our game last night - only just, pretty exciting. My 3 game goal famine is over too - manged to nudge one in. #
• got to get a grip on my J1 schedule next week - so far parties are outnumbering PR / AR meetings - nice #
• Just blogged : crazy great software : http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/131 #
• OK - about to attack calendar for nxt wk. Pls no tweets for 30 mins. #
• over my Sun options loss; I;ve said goodbye. If I mention them again - point me to this tweet. #

As I’ve said before, success in the new ‘adoption led’ era of software is about maintaining a great experience - like this example. I don’t care whether Rob is a paying customer or not today - what I do care about is his future potential to influence - multiply that by 20 million. Let’s hope we can keep Rob and millions of others like him happy.

Tags: adoption, JBoss

• If you are planning to leave Sun. Sell your stock first - it’s virtually impossible otherwise. #
• Damn - there goes my Sun stock - pox on you Sun stock admins. for not letting me sell ! #
• @cote - good catch - Puppet is pretty neat #
• @metadaddy - buy opty. indeed After you mate ! #
• just blogged - ouch ! : http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/129 #

I’m not even tempted to gloat about Sun’s Q3 news and I think it’s a shame that Wall St. will be demanding Sun to shrink back to profitability as a result. Having RIFs (Reduction In Force) hanging over the workforce is completely demoralizing - I know - I survived at least five. Sun were starting to look pretty exciting again but clearly not yet strong enough to weather the economic downturn. Shame.

If any of you Sunnies get impacted by the RIF or want out before it starts - don’t hesitate to drop me a line.

Tags: rif, sun

• doing expenses, listening to product launch concall, happy I don’t have to use SunTEA anymore #
• Hmm, S2AP beta not as available as you might expect #

Talking of Spring - SpringSource’s choice of license for their new ‘platform’ seems to have sparked some discussion over on TSS.

In a way - it’s sad that a perfectly decent product launch is over-shadowed by their choice of license - we (the OpenSource community) still clearly have work to do.

I haven’t decided whether their choice to dual license is smart or dumb and I also wonder if it was done with BEAOralces blessing - presumably they we’re a good partner at one point. Clearly SpringSource think they’re in a dominant enough position to make such a change - I guess their consumers will decide.

Tags: gpl, JBoss, spring, spring source

Well almost. My intention was to change the header image (above) with the seasons - but Spring in North Carolina has come and almost gone. I’d better start looking for a summer picture. Fall picture is here if you are interested.

Tags: leaves, photography, spring

• It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Microhoo! this week - or really dull - depending on whether Balmer does *anything* at all. #
• Can’t think of a positive outcome for Y! : MS pull their offer - bad for Y!; MS elect new board - bad for Y! Someone pls give me +ve outcome #
• My J1 week is filling up fast - shame I won’t get to see many sessions - I actually saw 2 last year which is a record for recent years. #
• @metadaddy - let me know when you’re at J1 next week so we can meet up #
• likin Zimbra. Note to RHT IT - please move Zimbra outside the Firewall. Thanks. #
• @GregNelson - congratulations on the marriage - send me your resume when you’re ready #
• @stevehorne - did you try asking for help on #jboss on irc.freenode.net ? #
• mail, phone, twitter, irc, AIM - one of them has to go #
• The champions league has take on a very English feel - hint, hint. No spoilers here. #

Oracle closed the $8.5bn BEA deal today following the nod of approval from the EC. Now the check (cheque) has cleared - it will be interesting to see what happens next.

Tags: acquisition, bea, oracle

• Back on RedHat diet - ie. eat free fruit and nuts while at work - can’t wait for dinner ! #
• @smaragdis - it’s also about knowing if anyone else values the balls enough to catch them #
• @kevinchu - someone has to #
• Apple’s micro-releases are relentless - eg. new iMac - I wonder if it’s working for them #
• Exellent - Reiser inspired geek / murder jokes have started - how I love dark humour. #
• @metadaddy - more here : http://www.bannination.com/comments/5029936 #
• hmm - it must be monsoon season inthe SE USA - I can’t see the end of the garden #