Marion's Weblog

Marion's Weblog
My name is Marion Vermazen. I worked at Sun Microsystems up until June 3, 2005. I worked on the IT aspects of Sun's work from anywhere program, iWork. I was also the team lead for the Java Desktop and Solaris 10 at Sun Change Acceptance team.

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Wednesday March 02, 2005

Happy Birthday Duke!

I bet you think I am going to talking about Sun's mascot. Sorry, but if that's what you're thinking you are wrong!

Today is my wonderful Husband's birthday. He wasn't born Duke but that's been his name for most of his adult life. I'd think it was very cool to be married to Duke even if I didn't work at Sun. But working at Sun and being married to Duke is just icing on the cake ;-)There is another cool way our names are connected. Can you guess? If not go here. Marion and Duke.

Anyway Happy Birthday Duke!!

(2005-03-02 14:29:02.0) Permalink Comments [3]

JDS Preview to become the default

Several months ago I began talking about our plans to deploy a version of GNOME 2.0 with a JDS look and feel as a first step towards eventually deploying Solaris 10 and JDS across Sun. We call what we are deploying JDS Preview. In November we deployed JDS Preview as an option on all our SunRay servers. About 55% of our user base has voluntarily given up on CDE and started running JDS Preview.

Next week we are going to make the BIG Default change across Sun. Sun Ray users will now have to explicitly choose CDE if they want to keep running CDE. This should improve our GNOME usage significantly and make us much more prepared to move to the real JDS in the next few months. Stay tuned.

(2005-03-02 14:27:41.0) Permalink Comments [1]