Just saw the end of Sun’s quarterly earnings announcements and the announcement that Scott McNealy stepped down as CEO to be replaced by Jon Schwartz.

To say the least, I am stunned at the moment. I never expected to see Scott step down. I’ll have to think on what this means for Sun, but I think it means good things. I think Jon can make changes that Scott couldn’t, because Scott was too emotionally invested, and it would be “against his nature” to do.
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Or, at least my comment about using VMWare GSX/VMWare Server and running Solaris X86 (Nevada) under it is: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=re_vmware_and_the_frequent Thanks to Eric for the little plug for LOPSA.

Where else can you go and have celebrities take pictures of you? Ok, so as a member of the LOPSA board and past author, some of you may consider me a minor celebrity. I don’t! But whatever, it is still quite impressive to be standing around talking and have people like Æleen Frisch and Mark…

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I have previously attended two LISA in the very distant past; 1996 and 1997 (I think….) in Chicago and Monterey (feel free to comment if I missed my years). I remember from those times spending a lot of time talking to very technical people, a lot of time drinking with very technical people, and having…

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I’ve been thinking more and more about some of the issues that have been brough up and the barriers to creating a new organization. I don’t think I have any (complete) answers yet, but I have more things we can all think about. I think we’ve all mentioned some of these before, but in light…

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I’ve been thinking more and more about some of the issues that have been brough up and the barriers to creating a new organization. I don’t think I have any (complete) answers yet, but I have more things we can all think about. I think we’ve all mentioned some of these before, but in light…

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