Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Leaving Sun and going to SAP
As many colleagues and friends already know, I decided to leave Sun at the end of this months in order to pursue a new opportunity at SAP. Actually, my very last day at Sun will be upcoming Monday (June 23rd). It was a great time at Sun, and I learned a lot! I really like the people, the culture, the attitude and the fact that Sun cares about more than just revenue (e.g. eco responsibility, fun, accessibility, volunteer work, etc.). I will definitely miss Sun and my colleagues! It was a great time!

Since people asked what will happen to my blog, I thought I should post a short statement before I leave, telling people where they can find a new blog and how they can stay in touch with me. AFAIK, my old Sun blog posts will continue to exist. At least that is what happened to other people's blogs after they left Sun. Thus, I'm confident that the data will not get lost.

In addition, in order to guarantee some level of continuity I just quickly created a new blog called "Erwin's Open Source Salsa". I don't know yet what I will do blogging wise in the long term, but at least I will use that new blog as an interim solution.

In case people wonder how to stay in touch with me going forward, you can find me in various social networks including XING (my favorite), LinkedIn and Facebook. Thus, just connect with me via one of those platforms!

Anyway, I'm sure our paths will cross again!

Bye for now and all the best
Erwin

( Jun 19 2008, 01:36:07 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [7]

Kommentare:

Hey nice move... hope we can see you contributing and blogging over on http://sdn.sap.com/ too.

Gesendet von Nigel James am Juni 19, 2008 at 05:54 PM CEST #

hey! So sad to see you go, but all the best wishes at SAP. :)

Gesendet von Jim Grisanzio am Juni 20, 2008 at 09:19 AM CEST #

Erwin, you will be sadly missed by all your friends in the OpenOffice.org Community. We hope to see you back fighting the good fight once you have got your feet under the table in your new job :-)

Very best wishes
John
Marketing Project Lead
OpenOffice.org

Gesendet von John McCreesh am Juni 20, 2008 at 12:15 PM CEST #

Hmmm.... SAP produces non-Free software. Well, maybe you can teach them better. Good luck.

Gesendet von Roy Schestowitz am Juni 20, 2008 at 01:39 PM CEST #

Terribly sad to see you leaving Sun but I completely understand why. I hope your new job fits you perfectly, but if it doesn't - just call :-)

Gesendet von Simon Phipps am Juni 21, 2008 at 06:11 PM CEST #

Thanks for all your support for us in Bristol over the past 3 years - best wishes for your next role, we'll miss you!

Gesendet von Gavin Beckett am Juni 22, 2008 at 11:50 AM CEST #

Thank you very much for all the nice farewell wishes!!! It was a lot of fun working with all of you, and I really enjoyed helping OpenOffice.org and ODF to be successful in the software market!

All the best,
Erwin

Gesendet von Erwin Tenhumberg am Juni 23, 2008 at 06:28 AM CEST #