What I (and Sun) Have Been Doing Lately

You're probably wondering why you haven't heard from me in a few months. Well, it's just been one of those Summers. Moving always takes more time to recover from than you might expect, and I've been busy at Sun.

In May, Sun released Grid Engine 6.1. I enjoyed working on this project, in part because the project team includes people whose native languages are Russian and German. Those two languages just happen to be the languages other than English with which I have passing familiarity. But, the product itself is also a great product for managing a collection of computing resources that perform tasks (aka, a grid). The Sun Grid Engine product is based on an open source effort that has been around for several years. Every day, community members interact with the Sun project team to enhance the Grid Engine solution. Take a look at the open source site and help us to improve this product for you.

In July, Sun released N1 Service Provisioning System 6.0. This was a major redesign of the SPS product, including a new user interface that is similar to other Sun products and a new NetBeans-based tool for plug-in development. Of course, we enhanced other features, too. I enjoyed helping with the redesign of the user interface, owning most of the on-screen text and putting in place a real online help system for SPS. Sure, it can always be better, but I think this release is a vast improvement in the user experience over the previous versions of the product.

Of course, I'm working on a couple of other projects too, but I can't tell you about them just yet. Meanwhile, the sunflowers are in full bloom in North Dakota. In fact, the picture that Sun is using to promote our Eco-initiative on our home page looks suspiciously like some of the fields here.

Posted at 09:11AM Aug 24, 2007 by jcinfoblog in General  |  Comments[0]