Debut

So, I have decided to climb on the bandwagon of Sun bloggers.  I am not exactly a newbie to blogging per se but I am excited about joining my colleauges in this trendsetting corporate blogging culture.  My name is Anup Sekhar and I have been a software engineer at Sun for 8 years and most of it has been as part of the Naming group (responsible for the LDAP/NIS/NIS+ and formerly FNS/DNS components of Solaris).  Our group has undergone numerous name changes and is currently referred to as the Network Repository group which is part of the bigger Approachability organization.  Over these years, I have worked on various exciting projects at Sun including project Wyoming (the 64 bit Solaris), IPv6-ization of naming services, Native LDAP, porting the libldap library from iPlanet.  For the last 3 years, however, I was on loan to the greater Solaris organization as one of two gatekeepers for Solaris 10.  Now that Solaris 10 is out the door, I am back in my group and starting to work on a project codenamed Sparks which is a major enhancement of how the naming services work.

Since I already have a personal blog where I talk about non-technical stuff (mostly), I will try to use this one for blogs related to my work at Sun and the technologies that I am interested in.