Marla Parker's Weblog

What a change...
The big news today is of course a change but I'm personally more delighted with the internal change. Sun's senior management have been on the open source path for a long time, and lots of other staff throughout the company have been with them all the way. But a lot of other people, the majority at first, were too busy with their own jobs to pay attention to the early open source movement.

So when Danese Cooper, who often told me her goal at Sun was to get Java released as open source, would say something provocative, there really could be lively discussions that started with something like: what is she talking about? Open Source software is like Communism, isn't it? It was pretty entertaining.

Danese is long gone from Sun, but she is celebrating today with this timeline in her blog.

And wow, have times changed. Everyone, really everyone I know, within Sun gets it now. Schwartz and the rest of his team are effective communicators. No more fear and confusion, just a lot of positive energy and excitement.