On Tuesday of last week, an online financial publication ran an article on Sun. Normally, this would be cause for an "uh-oh". These publications tend not to post positive articles on Sun. Surprisingly, this article looked at our board of directors, and found Sun to be both ethical and transparent. That felt good. Finally, an article that wasn't about our imminent demise. How refreshing :)
Two weeks ago, my organization launched a group blog. Not to tell the world how great we are. Not to say what we're doing right and others are doing wrong. And not to promote the individuals in our design community as they search for another job. No -- this blog was requested by our director, and is being executed collectively by us, the designers in software. Not for any of the reasons above, but to show our shareholders, our communities, and even other parts of Sun that we are facing interesting problems and solving them in new and creative ways, based on customer feedback. How's that for transparent?