Matthias Müller-Prove, User Experience Architect at Sun Microsystems Acetylcholinesterase

Neither Rome, nor Wikipedia were built in a single day. Hence my first draft of a glossary of terms in the area of virtualization is far from perfect. But it provides an overview on the acronyms I've learned so far.

1. Keep it simple.
2. But not simpler.
3. Keep scalability in mind.
4. End users are not dumb.
5. Sysadmins are human beings, too.

Starting today, this blog features a "Virtualization News Feed" in the right column. It is an aggregation of several sources like some Sun bloggers and blog entries that have been tagged with 'virtualization'. You can also take a look behind the scenes at pipes.yahoo.com/mprove/virtualization.

Hi there,

this blog will be revived because I have decided to join Sun's Desktop Virtualization team in Hamburg. As an User Experience Architect I will collect user requirements in this area and design a system for companies who want to replace their PCs with thin clients -- like eg. Sun Ray -- and use the computational power of the server room. You can argue that the desktop is virtual anyway - at least I like to argue that way. The desktop is a collection of metaphors, more or less consistent since the 1980s. To that extent the current development should be better called "remote desktop" -- but sooner or later both "remote" and "virtual" will become obsolete concepts for the end user.

Until then, best
Matthias

This blog comes to an end because I have decided to leave Sun after 5, nearly 6 great years at the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org User Experience team. It has been a fun ride with you.

My special thanks go to Christian, Stella, Frank, Bettina, Lutz, and Götz for the surprising and beautiful coffeepot à la Don Norman. That's magnificent!

5 new blogs on the block. I'd be happy if you stop by from time to time for some inspiration.

• OpenOffice.org User Experience - about improving the open source office suite
• User Experience & HCI Design - about delightful software and web applications
• User Experience Management - about product management and innovation processes
• Interface Culture - about computers as new media
• metascript - everything else is miscellaneous

Take care and all the best
Matthias