A Penguin in Purple Clothing

Thursday August 26, 2004

John's going away lunch

I have worked with John for many years. When I first came out to Silicon Valley after college, I started at Silicon Graphics. John started two weeks before me. Then, when my firt manager Simon left, John stepped up to the plate to become the manager of the Linux kernel group. John left SGI to go to a startup called Afara and I left to go with him about a month later. He was my manager there. Then, Afara was acquired by Sun and he stayed my manager here over the past two years. Now, John is leaving Sun to go to Apple. He will manage the kernel group there and work for Simon who is the director for OS X at Apple.

Today we are having a going away lunch for John. I will miss having John as a manager since we have develeped a close working relationship over the past 5 years. But, the good news is that Brian will be taking over for the group and so things should go smoothly. Ok, off to the Tied House for me!

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