Marc Hamilton's Weblog: Marc Hamilton's Weblog

In a 30,000+ person company like Sun, someone joins or leaves the company in some city around the world nearly every day. Yes, I know we had a lot more goings than comings this week, and as the goings have been documented elsewhere I thought I would focus on one of the comings and welcome the newest member of my staff, Brady Johns, Sun's new North America x86 Sales Director.

Now as a California native, I must say I have a preference for my hometown over just about any other city. But how can you not like Austin. I end up going to Austin a lot. Last summer I spent some time there in my previous job negotiating our Solaris OEM agreement with Dell. And of course, Austin is the home of the world's fastest x86 supercomputer, the Sun Constellation System powered Ranger cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. I even spent July 4th weekend reading a book about another Texan, Marcus Luttrell. So as I looked to grow our x86 sales team, when I ran across Brady, I realized he was exactly the right person to lead the charge. Quite unfortunate for that other computer company in Austin, but I think very good for Sun and for Brady. Now I just need to teach Brady to use Sun's blogging system and I'll be all set.