Jonathan Schwartz's BlogJonathan Schwartz's BlogDo I Still Have a Job- March 29, 2008 This is Bill Macgowan. Bill is Sun's Chief Human Resources Officer. Which means he works with me to build and cultivate talent at Sun. He's bright, well spoken, and usually exercises good judgement. Usually. But today, he perpetrated a prank. On me. An April Fool's Day prank. Executed early enough to turn into a video for the enjoyment of Sun's employees on Tuesday (April Fool's Day). And if I have the courage to publicly display my gullibility, it'll be here, on this blog, in...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/april_fools_day1 OpenSolaris, Security and the NSA (National Security Agency)- March 25, 2008 We made a very significant announcement last week, of a collaboration with one of the most (if not the most) security sensitive institutions on earth, the United States government's National Security Agency. They've joined the burgeoning OpenSolaris community, to collaborate with Sun and other community members on the future of ultra-secure operating systems. To put this in context, community engagement has always been one of the most important ways Sun innovates in the marketplace - we...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/opensolaris_and_the_nsa_national The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud- March 3, 2008 I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past. Frankly, I'd never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher from UCSD gave me a basic education in astronomy - and explained the Hubble looks at celestial bodies whose light is just now reaching us. But it can "only" see 12 billion years into the past - and that was a veil he'd like to pierce. (I asked him what he did for a living, he said, "I simulate...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/lone_ranger |