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IBM's Sutor, Sun's Phipps give lukewarm reception to Microsoft patent covenants: In yesterday's post regarding Microsoft's remarkable step in the right direction (with regards to its issuance of some patent non-assertion covenants), I mentioned that silence on behalf of the normally quick-to-respond-to-such-news Bob Sutor (IBM's open source and standards veep) and Simon Phipps (Sun's chief open source officer) might have been...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Simon Phipps; Blog posts 2006-09-14
Simon Phipps gets it right (finally): Simon Phipps gets it right finallylies, lies and more damned liesall SUN does is say we will open source Java soon but in reality I havent seen anything from them. I think its time SUN stop telling lies and do it now. I have lost faith in...; Tags: Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-07-06
Simon Phipps gets it right (finally): At EclipseCon 2004, Sun's Simon Phipps gave a keynote address before a tense audience on the virtues of open source. This was before NetBeans was re-invigorated, when there was talk of Sun joining Eclipse and teaming up on IDE development. The message...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse, Simon Phipps, open source; Blog posts 2006-07-05
Phipps explains what he really meant: Simon Phipps of Sun wrote today not only to complain about what we called a "scarecrow" argument but to explain what he really meant. "It was a version of Benkler's argument, that as we align our individual motivations we are able to collectively achieve what only 'the firm form' was...; Tags: Simon Phipps; Blog posts 2006-06-30
Sun's Phipps makes a scarecrow argument: Those who recall my recent piece on Richard Stallman will nod when they read this. UPDATE: Phipps says he was misunderstood by the reporter who wrote this. Simon Phipps, a Sun executive, told a conference in London that people need to stop thinking of open source as "free" and start...; Tags: Simon Phipps; Blog posts 2006-06-28

More chatter on Massachusetts' OpenDoc plan: David Coursey at eWeek wrote a Microsoft-friendly response to Massachusetts' decision to standardize on the OpenDoc format. And the response to his response has been both sympathetic and bewildered. The gist of Coursey's argument is this: "I am not sure what the...; Tags: Simon Phipps, David Coursey, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2005-09-12
License stand-down begins: The Sun set on SISSL, the Sun Industry Standards Source License. Hopefully this is just the first announcement of many. For any commercial open source definition to work, we need some rational licensing, licensing you don't need a lawyer to figure out. I wrote about this back in March, after...; Tags: SISSL, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Blog posts 2005-09-06
For non-proliferation's sake, Sun asks OSI to retire older open source license: There's a bit of news on the the open source license non-proliferation front. Proliferation of incompatible open source licenses has balkanized the open source software community to a point that code isn't nearly as freely shareable as some people perceive it to be. As one of his...; Tags: Simon Phipps, open source; Blog posts 2005-09-02
Clearing the air on IBM Workplace-OpenOffice.org connection: Yesterday's blog entry by Joe Brockmeier about why he found the comments reported to have been made by Sun officials to be petty politics has drawn a response from Sun's Simon Phipps as well as a clarification to a blog I wrote on the issue from Open Source...; Tags: IBM Corp., OpenOffice.org, Simon Phipps; Blog posts 2005-04-27
Inside the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board: The OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board CAB was announced this week, which will play a key role in how Sun's unleashed Linux competitor evolves in the market of free software. The five member CAB includes two members from Sun--Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist, and Caspar Dik, a senior staff engineer. Two members--Rich...; Tags: Podcasts, OPEN SOURCE, Digital music, Java, Digital media, Roy Fielding, Sun Microsystems Inc., CAB, Simon Phipps, OpenSolaris; Blog posts 2005-04-07

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Citrix and Xen not versus Xen: Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix's Virtualization Management group, contacted me after reading the post, Citrix versus the Xen community, to clear up some misconceptions that he thought were the basis of my post. After reading his message, it's clear that what he had to say was very persuasive. Thanks Simon...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-17
Citrix versus the Xen community: As the virtual machine software competition heats up, one would expect representatives of each of the suppliers to take shots at one another in the media. I've seen a recent example of this.Two of the proponents of Xen, Citrix and Virtual Iron, appear to be having at it in the...; Tags: Community, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-15
iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption: UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise users. Now it's pitching its new iPhone 3G as: "The best phone for business. Ever". But...; Tags: Barrier, Apple iPhone, Phone, O2 Plc., John Romeis, Gordon Barnes, Paul Jarvis, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, 3G, Cellular Phones, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, IT; News items 2008-07-11
GNOME knows why there's no Sun up in the sky: GNOME knows why there's no Sun up in the skyNo questionKDE is my preferred UI, but picture a new user--they'll benefit immediately from GNOME's simpler interface and pure ease of use.GNOME is a well put together GUI.ThanksAnd, that is one of the messages that we need to get out. With...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., GNOME; Discussion threads 2008-07-08
Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs: On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam â€“ and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...; Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-01
News to know: Nokia Symbian; XP phase-out; Apple badware: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30 Dancho Danchev: Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's...; Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Advertising & Promotion, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Management, Marketing, David Grober; Blog posts 2008-06-25
Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up: Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing upSorry Dana, but you scewed upHi Dana,I totally agree that more transparency would be a good thing for Sun and its products and projects, and more openness would be the next big step. Beyond that I don't agree with much that you wrote here.>...; Tags: Team management, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Simon, non-development community, open source project, team, MySQL; Discussion threads 2008-06-24
Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up: No one person, inside or outside Sun, should be plotting its open source strategy. You can guide it, you can concentrate your own energies at key points, but there is no I in team. Open source requires team-building. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-06-24
IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC: Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...; Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-18
SocialCalc: a killer app?: David Greenfield details SocialCalc, the wikified spreadsheet from SocialText. While David's assessment is comprehensive, I partially disagree with his analysis that: Â ...SocialCalc will have a long way to go. Today there's no Excel integration, something that Google Sheets already offers. What's more the range of functions provided with SocialCalc...; Tags: Killer Application, Socialtext, Spreadsheet, SocialCalc, Google Sheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-10