mamafufu Q: how is life? A: mamafufu

sun-on-sun may not be a hard-and-fast rule at sun, it certainly is part of the sun culture and norm.  since i joined sun three years ago through the sevenspace acquisition, we have been taken every opportunities to practice "eat our own dog food" as we continue to invest in our sun managed operations platform.

prior to the acquisition, many of the sevenspace back-end core components were already running on sun hardware and solaris.  java was also used extensively in engineering software.  in addition, we also had a diverse range of heterogeneous technologies from dell, hp, ibm, redhat, emc and many others.  here is the great sun-on-sun journey for managed operations so far:

• dell -> sun x64 based server for the controltower appliance (pdf)
• eclipse -> netbeans
• jboss -> sun java system application server
  
• oracle cluster -> sun solaris cluster
  
• sonic jms -> sun java system message queue
  
• redhat linux -> solaris 10
• emc -> sun storagetek disk system

this all sounds good and logical.  so in addition to servicing its partners and customers, what do the sun managed operations people, process, technology and knowledge have to offer the rest of sun?  how do we integrate the sun managed operations services to other exciting emerging sun products and services?  how does sun IT operations use the sun managed operations technology and process to manage our own sun internal infrastructure?

more on this exciting topic later.

this picture was taken earlier this week from the sun office in ashburn, va, usa.  it is my home office and also was the headquarter of sevenspace, inc. before it was acquired by sun in jan 2005.  this month marks the third anniversary of the acquisition.  i remember because i was one of the "sevenspacer" and became a sun employee since then.

now going back to the picture above.  it was made of alphabet cookies and it must has been there shortly after the acquisition.  while i am surprised to see the cookies are still in good looking condition after all these time, i am more amazed that they have not been eaten by now.

as for the IT managed services that sevenspace built and was known for, it is now known as the sun managed operations to the world - just bigger and better.  in addition to servicing external partners and customers, sun is also using the same technology and the ITIL based operational process to support its internal infrastructure as well as integrating it into new offerings such as project blackbox and network.com - the sun grid utility computing.
 
as an ex-sevenspacer, i feel good and proud of the managed operations line of business that we helped to build at sun.  also want to take this opportunity to again thank all my colleagues at sun.  you made my transition to sun a painless one and many of you have gone out of your ways to make me feel like home from day one.  i noticed, i remember and i thank you.

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