super busy.
can't talk. just too much going on.
quick thing you need to know..
keynotes were awesome. Jonathan, Johnny, Mark -- they were my warm-up act.
that's right, yours truly was ONSTAGE AT SUNNETWORK SHANGHAI!
do i work the angles people, or what?
not to worry... i'll hunt down the webcast so you can see for yourself.
just don't have time to do it now.
breakout sessions are under way.
gotta go. so much to do.
i work the angles like you would not believe.
;-)
mary
Today Sun announced an expanded partnership with Fujitsu that will result in joint development and joint distribution between the companies for next-generation SPARC and Solaris systems. HUGE news. Wall Street likes it. Go SUNW!
And to think, I knew it first. And I didn't even know I knew it first until I logged onto Sun.com and saw the news....
Yesterday, in the interview I conducted with Jonathan Schwartz (see previous blog entry for more) he was talking to me about how some of Sun's competitors (HP, not to name names) have tied the future of their HP-UX operating system to the success of the Itanium system, and are therefore unable to participate in the systems evolution on industry-standard servers.
Let's hear the rest straight from Jonathan:
"If you contrast that with how Sun is approaching the marketplace, we've said that the market is growing. The market for high-scale systems is growing. And we're going to continue working -- not just ourselves but with our partners -- to evolve the marketplace for scalable systems with SPARC. And the partner I have in mind is Fujitsu.
"We're going to give customers choice in where they want to run the highest-scale, highest quality operating system -- Solaris -- available on the market today. They can either run it on high scale systems produced by Sun or Fujitsu or they can run them on any number -- well over a couple hundred now -- of industry-standard servers running Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron systems produced by every vendor in the market place.
"That gives customers choice. That also gives our company an opportunity to participate with a competitive advantage against companies that are following a traditional path and are going to fall, I think, on the sharp edge of conventional wisdom."
see, folks sometimes i'm so good at getting scoop, that i don't actually realize that i got it...
Big, big day today. It's the opening day of the Asian debut of the SunNetwork Conference. It's a coming-out party, people and I'm here to cover it for you! Big keynotes. You're going to get the play-by-play here on the MaryMaryQuiteContrary blog. We'll be giving you live, up-to-the-minute reports on breaking developments.
check early, check often.
have fun! (you know i'm going to :-)
mary
p.s. check out the outfit today. professional, eh. told you it was a big day. i dressed up. you should see the shoes. accessorize ladies, accessorize.
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Well everybody, I did it!
I had my Jonathan Schwartz interview. It went great.
And let me tell you, I'm all inspired.
I tell you, that guy should do an IPO on Jonathan Schwartz. Google would have nothing on him.
What an incredible leader.
So keep Sun.com bookmarked to find out what I asked him. The interview will run there. Don't know when, exactly, but soon.
shift, reload
I'm covering his keynote for you tomorrow. And there will be webcast replay too. So there will be plenty of ways for you to get a piece of the Jonathan action, too.
mary
p.s. he asked me to send him the url to my blog. (!!!!!) so if you notice the spelling errors are all cleaned up you'll know why. we'll be spell-checking moving forward ;-)
Curtis Sasaki just gave a demo of Looking Glass to the Sun Developer Advisory Council.
They gave him a round of applause when he was done.
When's the last time you saw a room full of developers give somebody applause for demoing technology?
It's no wonder that the father of Looking Glass Hideya Kawahara won a spot as one of InfoWorld's Innovators to Watch in 2005.
I was really hoping that Hideya would be here so that I could introduce myself and welcome him into the circle of techno celebs who are my personal friends. Alas, he didn't make it to Shanghai. I'll definately hunt him down at JavaOne.
I digress... sort of... the point is there are some really hot developments in the works, not just with Looking Glass but with the whole Java Desktop System. Curtis told these guys (and me, the hanger-on) because they signed NDAs. And you, my friends, haven't. So that's a little bit "too bad for you" to quote Junie B. Jones.
Stay tuned. It's gonna knock your socks off.
mary
