Thursday May 26, 2005
Thursday May 26, 2005 Passion for OpenSolaris technology stretches across borders
Received an email from Tim Bray today titled "A note from a random friend of mine in Vancouver". Curiousity peaked, I took a quick look. Tim forwarded some great feedback from Matthew Laird, a bioinformatician and sysadmin in one of the big labs at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
From Matthew:
"On a different note, I went to the Sun Solaris 10 lecture at Habour Centre yesterday, wow, some truly amazing technology in Solaris 10. DTrace does look like a fantastic tool. And the fellow doing the tour talking about it - tell your fellow management members you want this guy being a front line spokesman for Sun more often. He's obviously smart, has a keen wit, good sense of humour and presents things well, in a way that keeps people interested. He would be a strong asset as an evangelist for Sun."
Matthew was talking about the powerhouse Bryan Cantrill, and I completely agree with his commentary about Bryan. The first time I saw Bryan present was at Brown University back in the fall of 1996 - being alums, Bryan and I traveled back to Providence together to do some recruiting for the Solaris Kernel team. I called my parents later that night and told them to expect to see this guy on the cover of some cool technology/business mag someday - not only is he a great technologist, but he can explain things in ways that keep people on the edge of their chairs - his passion is infectious.
Props to Bryan, and thanks to Matthew for the unsolicited compliment.
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