I have a new job. In fact I was lucky and got two new jobs. I have been the chief technologist for our Services organization for the past couple of years. With the changes of the organization, the joining of our global sales and services team, I have moved to become the chief technologist for Sun's global sales and services division. Equal good news is that Jon Greaves has replaced me as the chief technologist for services. But wait, theres more. I also have the job as the VP of our Europe, Middle East and Africa Systems Engineering Organization.

My job title is now in the running as the longest on record. In short hand it looks like this: CTO GSS & VP EMEA SE. All acronyms. In long form it could be represented as: Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technology Officer - Global Sales and Services & Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa Systems Engineering. What a gallimaufry of words.

In this job I get to work with some pretty interesting folks. First I form one leg of what we have been calling the Geek Troika. The Troika is made of up Hal Stern, Jim Baty and myself. For some reason I picture the three of us geeks pulling a cart with Jonathan at the reins. Why the Troika? Well all three of us are in the Global Sales and Services organization. Hal as the VP of Global Systems Engineering, Jim as the GSS Chief Architect and myself as described above. All three of us also report into Greg Papadopoulos' CTO staff. Since the three of us (the troika) spend so much time working together we kind of end up being able to end each others thoughts. I know kind of scary.

The great thing about this job is that I get to spend a lot more time with the killer technical folks we have in EMEA. I have always been impressed with the talent we have in the field organizations at Sun, now I get to be closer to and work with some of the best.