Running At Americas Sales Meeting
A packed schedule this week at Sun's Americas Sales Meeting at
Gaylord National conference center on the Potomac River just south of D.C. It is really quite an impressive and well designed hotel and conference center that anchors the new National Harbor development.
It won't, however, be a week for long runs. It is about a 5K loop around the center, and the only way out beyond that is onto one of several expressways. Given my 6:30 am - 12:30 am schedule the next few days, I won't really miss my long runs, and will probably just hit the well equipped gym tomorrow morning.
But if anyone finds a way out of here for a longer run, let me know, by Friday I may be ready for it.
Am I reading this right? Is Sun outsourcing its software development to Exigen Services!? I thought you were a software company? I'm confused.
Posted by Kevin Hutchinson on August 12, 2008 at 02:58 PM PDT #
The title of the press release at http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080812/0423926.html
is a bit misleading. As mentioned further down in the release, "Exigen Services will provide application development and maintenance services for a portfolio of products in Sun's Services division." We have millions and millions of lines of code spread across 100's or perhaps 1000's of products at Sun. The Exigen agreement does not appear to involve any of the core software products from our software division, i.e. OpenSolaris, MySQL, Glassfish, etc.
Posted by Marc Hamilton on August 13, 2008 at 09:46 AM PDT #