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Wednesday March 02, 2005 This seems to be the popular thing to do these days - get a blog on blogs.sun.com, and start posting snippets of stuff you are doing. I know several other people who are blogging here, and I've got some stuff to say myself - so I might as well join.
My name is Alan Nichols, and I am a engineer in Sun's Solutions Deployment Engineering group. I am have experience with deploying and maintaining a lot of the products in the JES suite, but my main focus is on Access Manager (previously known as Identity Server).
Deployment Engineering can be a funny business to be in. I don't code the product (that's Engineering's job), and I don't deploy it either (that's the job of the customer, our partners, or the consultants in Client Solutions). I do sit between the two, and try to explain to Client Solutions and the customer in terms the customer understands what the product does, how to make it do what they want to do with it; and then explain to Engineering in terms they understand what customers want (as opposed to what they ask for), and what they need to do to make the product easy to manage and administer.
I'm not sure yet what will end up in this blog - expect some snippets of sysadmin like stuff, and tidbits of stuff I am working on. I spend a lot of time tinkering with a wide range of software and hardware - expect a few postings talking about that soon.
