The news is out that one of the original Sun employees, John Gage, has retired from Sun and joined the same SV venture capital group with other Sun exec alums, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.    >>Press release.

 I remember the day John told me he had joined this startup company in the Valley that was going to put Unix workstations on engineers desks. I had left the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and was working for a software consulting company, and John was on campus in the University's computer resources office (or something). I was skeptical. I'd seen so many of these startups come and go quickly. 15 years later I sent John an email from my new office at Sun informing him that I had finally joined his little company.

John is one of the smartest people I've ever met. In the 70's, when he worked part time at Cody's in Berkeley running the math/science sections, we would meet around lunchtime and talk about math books. 

He's one of those people who could really change the world. And who knows... in this new job he just might. Bravo, John!