Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Apr 9th, 2008
After 8.5 exciting years – I recently left Sun to join the JBoss division of Red Hat. I’m honoured to be invited to join a company I’ve admired (as a competitor) for many years; and that’s as true for JBoss as it is for Red Hat. Red Hat has much to offer – a legendary [...]
Posted in personal on Mar 28th, 2008
Later this year I would have been celebrating 9 years (9 YEARS !!) at Sun. I would, that is, if I hadn’t gone and got myself a new job elsewhere – which is precisely what I have done. So today I’m celebrating 8 years, 5 months and 8 days at Sun; and about 6 months [...]
Posted in Business, open source, Red Hat on Mar 18th, 2008
Matt Assay provides some good reading as usual this morning. He’s tried to correlate stock prices of a few companies who base some or part of their business on Open Source with their “Open Source Business Maturity”. Essentially he’s plotted the stock price (ie. the financial market’s appraisal of the company) of Red Hat, Novell [...]
Posted in blogging on Feb 28th, 2008
If all went well (and Linda pulled the right levers) this entry should be included on the front page of blogs.sun.com. As I mentioned – after 4 happy years, I’ve deprecated my blog at Sun in favour of my own hosted WordPress blog.
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008