Tuesday Oct 03, 2006
Tuesday Oct 03, 2006
One of our more esteemed Java ME developers, Stuart Marks, has made a
point of differentiating the blogging that goes on here, Sun's external
blogging site, from our internal blogging site. The external
site, he says, is part of the greater Blogosphere, while the internal
site is dubbed, somewhat pejoratively, the Blogoprovinces. Not
wanting to be thought of as "provincial" has been enough of a motivator
for me to shift my blog, albeit rather nascent, to the external
site. So, congratulations Stuart; you have enticed another
colleague out from under the covers and into the great unbounded
blogosphere.
Funny. While I associate blogging with the whole movement toward open source and communities, my blogging is beginning exactly as I am shifting from out of software to a new role - no longer developing business models, business cases and ROIs for client software, I am off to discover a new way of looking at our customers, both current and future. For all of Sun. Not just software. Just when I was finally getting the hang of it.
My bookshelf is already reverting its balance to more books focused on strategy, markets, innovation and predictive analytics, while relegating my recently burgeoning agile software development, software metrics and open source collection to a decreasing minority position. Not that I'm a geek or anything - well not the kind you are likely thinking of anyway.
I will continue to stay fascinated with the mobile market though - it is fast moving (read hard to predict and therefore interesting) and besides, the gadgets are so cool. OK. Perhaps buying unlocked phones from overseas on a somewhat regular basis qualifies me as a geek of sorts, but the American version of my phone (when it releases) won't have wifi - what's up with that? It would appear that after seeing mine, a bunch of people seem to be ordering the E61 from the same place. And maybe I like that - being the first on my block with something new and cool.
So stay tuned. I'm hoping to figure out this customer thing in a new and cool way - and I might just actually figure it out.
Funny. While I associate blogging with the whole movement toward open source and communities, my blogging is beginning exactly as I am shifting from out of software to a new role - no longer developing business models, business cases and ROIs for client software, I am off to discover a new way of looking at our customers, both current and future. For all of Sun. Not just software. Just when I was finally getting the hang of it.
My bookshelf is already reverting its balance to more books focused on strategy, markets, innovation and predictive analytics, while relegating my recently burgeoning agile software development, software metrics and open source collection to a decreasing minority position. Not that I'm a geek or anything - well not the kind you are likely thinking of anyway.
I will continue to stay fascinated with the mobile market though - it is fast moving (read hard to predict and therefore interesting) and besides, the gadgets are so cool. OK. Perhaps buying unlocked phones from overseas on a somewhat regular basis qualifies me as a geek of sorts, but the American version of my phone (when it releases) won't have wifi - what's up with that? It would appear that after seeing mine, a bunch of people seem to be ordering the E61 from the same place. And maybe I like that - being the first on my block with something new and cool.
So stay tuned. I'm hoping to figure out this customer thing in a new and cool way - and I might just actually figure it out.
Anyway, welcome to the Blogosphere!
Posted by Stuart Marks on October 06, 2006 at 06:36 PM PDT #