Friday November 18, 2005
Friday November 18, 2005 Cross posting this to my old Sun blog http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/cmh and my new blog at http://clairegiordano.org/blog/
Andy Tucker, formerly a DE on the Solaris and OpenSolaris teams at Sun, now a Principal Engineer at VMware, is blogging again. Yippee. Welcome, Andy. At Sun, we used to say that Andy had a "45 minute rule." The story goes that Andy wouldn't weigh in with a comment for the first 45 minutes of any meeting. Of course, it wasn't true. Not even close. More like urban myth - people thought it true because they'd heard it said. It certainly wasn't the case for 1/2 hour meetings. :-) But there was a kernel of truth - Andy was a good listener, and didn't storm into a room like a 200 lb gorilla intent on taking over. He gave other people room to be.
Of course I'm pleased to see that of Andy's first three blogs, the second is titled "VMware and OpenSolaris" and the third is "A new source browser is born" - about our open source operating system and the wicked fast OpenSolaris source browser called OpenGrok, respectively. He may have left Sun but the OpenSolaris project still has some of his mindshare. Good good good.
When Andy left Sun earlier this year to make his mark at VMware, I tried to write a blog to say thank you and wish him well. And failed. I found it difficult to figure out what to say. I know that's a lame excuse, but we had worked closely together closely for such a long time. First on Solaris 2.5 Platinum Beta, later in Clustering, later in Resource Management, then Zones, then OpenSolaris. Not only is Andy brilliant, not only does he possess incredibly sound judgement, but he's also flexible and willing to be questioned and challenged. And I'm sure he'll confirm that I asked him a lot of questions. :-)
Andy: I hope that Steve Herrod and team at VMware know how blessed they are to have you on board. And I look forward to reading more of Andy Tucker's Blog. Thanks.
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