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New Morning

I was gratified to hear from Sun PR that the problem with Sun events invites has been fixed. Apparently I'll now be invited regardless of whether it corresponds to my beat area, which is a good thing because a) I have no beat area and b) I'm not really a...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., public relations

Blog posts 2006-07-10

Havana Bob

I'm sitting in the bar of the Argent Hotel with Dan Farber. He's just come from a concluding ODBC panel on open source and vs open standards with among others, Bob Sutor and Tim Bray. I saw Tim last night at Sun's sushi party where he told me that of...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Bob Sutor, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-02-15

Hey Bulldog

Ran into Sun's most authoratative blogger at OSBC this morning: Jim Grisanzio. Although some would point at Tim Bray (too partisan around Atom to sustain deserved linkcred from pre-Sun days) or Simon Phipps fragmented his Webmink brand into multiple feeds Jim's combination of OpenSolaris mission and personal naiviete about his...

Tags: Nick, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan

Blog posts 2006-02-14

Who do you trust?

RSS got another big boost today when portals-in-the-headlights AOL and Yahoo? decided they wanted to scrape some vig off of the email stream. Notice that this idea, first championed by Bill Gates several years ago in his famous "I will fix this problem in 2 years" speech, is in fact...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-04

Where in the world is Jonathan Schwartz?

Conspicuous in his absence from the Ellison/McNealy peace pipe-fest is Jonathan Schwartz. 10 year reup on Java, Solaris/Oracle bundle, Sun on Oracle ERP, This is the old-style blocking and tacking McNealy has been doing for years. He refers to Google just once in the opening remarks, as the current favorite...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Jonathan

Blog posts 2006-01-11