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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Friday April 01, 2005

A Great Sun Partner Blog

If you want to read a really great Sun partner blog I highly recommend Jaime Cardoso's weblog. Jaime works for the biggest Sun reseller in Portugal. I was going to comment on his great response to my posting on working from home. But Jaime is getting married soon and I just read the posting he did on weddings, women and colors. You have to read it!! and especially read the comments. I love what his brilliant fiancee Luz said comparing getting married to what it is like to move from Windows to SunRay and JDS.

When I read the comments to Jaime's post about iWork it moves Portugal to the top of my list of places I want to visit.

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Reversing the move to the city

Stephen O'Grady of Red Monk wrote a great post Thursday titled Home is where the Work is. I'm not just saying that because he had nice things to say about my Work from Home post last Thursday. He posed what is to me a very interesting question; "what impact might widespread mobile workers have on the current population distribution patterns. Meaning, is there the possibility for a slight reversal of the the Industrial Revolution pattern of "move to the city? " "

My initial answer to his question was absolutely yes, but although I believe people will move to where they want to live I am not sure it will be away from the city. Anecdotally I can think of several people I work with who have moved out of the San Francisco Bay area. My boss moved to the central coast, (His house was in the background of one of the scenes in the movie Sideways) Another co-worker bought a house outside of Sacramento, one of the best iWork IT people I know lives outside of Washington DC, and the person who runs our work from home program lives in Atlanta. The interesting point about all these people is that although they don't choose to live in the San Francisco bay area I am not sure they have given up the city. I know my husband and I have discussed the possibility. I think I'll do an informal poll and let you know what I learn. What do other people who work from home think? Have you moved away from the city?

By the way, I really enjoy the discussion aspect of blogging. Thanks for the link Stephen.

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