I've said it before and I'll say it again... if you haven't yet joined Inner Circle, you're missing out big time. This premium program gives you access to some serious insight, perspective as well as exclusive 1:1 engagements with Sun's A-list techno celebs.
We had one such engagement today. Our hosts: Curtis Sasaki, VP Engineering, Desktop Solutions, Sun Microsystems
Peder Ulander, Sr. Director of Marketing, Desktop Solutions, Sun Microsystems
here they are getting ready before things got started...
Peder gave a great talk (although to be totally honest I missed big chunks of it because the Project Looking Glass community meeting and the Sun Certified appreciation dinner were going on at exactly the same time and I was trying to be three places at once, running around like a chicken shot in the rear-end.)
but he kept things going without me... did a demo... whole nine yards...
your action item: check out Java Desktop System today.
mary
p.s. can you tell i'm on a mission to promote all things desktop? have you noticed?
p.p.s. Curtis Sasaki rocks. he has changed the rules of the game in the desktop. and this is the second time i have witnessed first hand how he can turn the industry on its ear. (he defined the second-generation Java platform when we went to the three versions -- EE, SE, ME. that was his idea. that was his proposal. i was in the room. i saw it first hand.) you know all this business about innovation happens elsewhere... that's all well and good... but i know for a fact that some of the smartest people on the planet work for sun microsystems. Curtis Sasaki is one of them. And it makes me really proud to work here too. (i'm hoping for a little osmosis, you know... i figure maybe with some proximity it might rub off...)