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May
21
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Eve Maler has the skinny on Sun's recent announcement to not assert any of its patents against anyone wanting to implement OpenID (1.1) technology. Technology that relies on the network effect require a zero-friction path to adoption - if other vendors follow suite - OpenID will be off to a good start.
I'm also amazed at the brevity of the full legal text - at first I thought I was missing a few pages - maybe this is a new benchmark.
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May
7
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Today, Sun announced one of the side-projects I've been involved in over the last couple of months. It's all good. And the service, when it gets rolled out, will be really interesting. The start of something big I think.
Honestly though - to me that isn't the most important thing. What I appreciate is that Sun is still the kind of place where you can get things done (important things that have an impact) and you can get them done without having to first ask for permission. Here's how it works - you find some people with similar interests (it often helps if they are a diverse group) do some planning, find some money (if needed) and go do it. Above all - don't ask for permission - that's not how Sun works.
Oh, it also helps if you're working with super smart people - the OpenID team at Sun has those in abundance.
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Apr
27
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Today, blogs.sun.com is three years old - that should be young I guess - old seems wrong - this is still a very new medium to many and b.s.c feels anything but old. Anyway, congratulations to everyone who has made it a success - the people who run it and to the 3,000 plus employees (and alumni) who make it an interesting place.
I was a bit of a laggard compared to some of my colleagues (and ex-colleagues) - I didn't join the fray until July 2004. In that time I've posted 303 entries, spent some time helping Eduardo and Carla getting The Aquarium (es, ch, ja) up and running and spent way too much time playing around with Roller templates.
As an added bonus, and to my surprise someone actually reads my blog - in fact, occasionally a lot of people. Looking back at my statcounter logs - there have been a couple of notable peaks -
- When one of my rants about the middleware market got picked up on TSS
- One of my posts got highlighted on Ajaxian (this was a big peak - 4k hits in a day; even now it draws 20-30 hits a day)
- An entry about Zimbra got linked to by Tim Bray (which was pretty humbling knowing how much traffic someone like Tim draws)
- I got linked by the Big Boss (FWIW - this drew far fewer referrers than Tim Bray's link - sorry Jonathan)
I don't write much that I expect will be of earth shattering importance and am fairly limited to what I can talk about work-wise so it's nice to know that some of what I write here is interesting to someone way down on the outer-reaches of the long tail.
Here's to the next 3 years of blogs.sun.com.
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Jan
10
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We (Sun) seem to be on a roll this year with launches, announcements and awards (and we're only 6 days in). And as of today the stock is at a 4-year high. One accolade that I've been waiting to blog is that Forrester has just ranked Sun as a leader in Inetgration-Centric BPM Suites (IC-BPMS). Sun's entry into that market came as a result of the SeeBeyond Acquisition a couple of years ago and subsequent integration of that technology into our existing software portfolio (such as Portal and Application Server).
Combined with our leadership in Identity Management and Web Services - this is a great platform on which to build our "Middleware 2.0" business.
It's great to be able to blog about something work-related for a change - hopefuly I'll be able to do more of that this year.
I think it's going to be a fun year.
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Dec
15
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You know it's not business as usual when your legal department sends out legal guidelines for working in virtual worlds (ie. Second Life) - that's precisely what I just found in my inbox - and it was very interesting (and amusing) reading. On the same subject - Tim O'Reilly wrote about his virtual^2 experiences at a recent Sun press conference. I also heard that IBM already has some land in Second Life - interestingly mimicking their Almaden Labs (a stone's throw from my [real] home) and they're building more - is this a land grab or what ?
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Oct
18
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As Mary mentions - Project Blackbox is causing a real stir internally - reframing a problem with such an innovative solution really causes people to break their pre-conceived ideas and think out of the box as well. The interest isn't just internal - I was talking at Sun's EBC today and had quite a battle bringing the conversation back to software strategy - the customer really wanted to brainstorm some uses for Blackbox; debate the economics of water cooling over Freon; understand the logistics of deploying a backup data center.
Over lunch we had a quick tour of the Blackbox 'pilot' (which is sitting outside Sun's Menlo Park EBC) - there were six or seven other customers and everyone was engaged in similar discussions. Some of the discussions I overheard we're nearly as interesting as Blackbox itself.
I managed to snap a couple of pictures (below) on my "thing that used to be a phone" - Jonathan Schwartz and Bill Vass we're there but I didn't get any pictures of them.
I just wonder how we handle the try-n-buy program !
Technorati Tags: sun, blackbox
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May
5
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treo-mail
Originally uploaded by sharps.
For better or worse I can now get work mail on my "thing that used to be a phone" (aka Teo650).
My mail account was recently migrated to sun's Edgemail - meaning I don't have to be inside the firewall to get my mail. I can't say the migration wasn't without it's problems (mainly due to detritus left over from previous migrations) but all seems to be working now.
Anyway, one of the benefits is that I can get my sun.com mail on my Treo - it was trivial to set up (but be sure to check the "receive headers only").
I doubt I'll use it much but it will be invaluable when I'm on the road (eg. JavaOne) - no more lugging my laptop :)
Now I just need EdgeCal.
