Two days after Sun Tech Day in Australia, most of tech talks become blur and only a few points addressed by Matt Thompson still hover in my mind.
1. Three month turnover.
Nowadays in Silcon Valley Venture Capitalists invest project on three months basis. This means that, if a project/idea is attractive enough to get venture capital, the first investment will be three months ongoing cost. After that, venture capitalist will review the progress and decide if it is worthy of another three months' funding.
World is changing so fast. Novel, interesting, attractive... idea will quickly lose its luster. Therefore, it is important to select advanced tools/languages to quickly develop the first generation product.
2. Participate open source project
Sun recently hired two Python pros. How were they identified? Through open source community. So open source community provides an excellent platform for both recruiter and job hunter. Start to build up reputation today!
3. Open source software development helps Sun grow.
Sun has made most of products/softwares open sourced. Apart from selling service contract, what else does Sun benefit from open source? Open source gives more and more people to develop software; some of these software projects will eventually become so successful that they will host in mission critical data center; Sun will supply the most cutting edge, energy-economic and high reliable data centers.