Jonathan Schwartz's BlogJonathan Schwartz's BlogFreedom's Choice- April 14, 2008 Today is the opening day of the MySQL User Conference - so I thought I'd describe a recent customer interaction related to the acquisition. A few weeks ago, I was visiting the Chief Information Officer of a large commercial institution. He had with him the company's Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (known as the "see-so"), and a series of lieutenants from various parts of their (large) development organization. The Sun team had spent the day reviewing our...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/freedom_s_choice Which is the Real Poisson D'Avril- April 2, 2008 If you'd like the backstory on the April Fool's video making its way around Sun (below)... it goes like this. My normally trustworthy administrator let me know I had a lunch appointment with my normally trustworthy friend, Ted. So I went to a normally trustworthy restaurant, where the normally trustworthy host walked me to my table - and past a series of video cameras I foolishly didn't notice. Ted lets me know he's managed to connect with Dan, a normally trustworthy colleague, who's put him.http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_video Give it Back.- April 1, 2008 As you know, Sun's open source software and microprocessor strategy has been, at times controversial. We've filled trade journals and chat rooms with all kinds of dialog and the occasional crackpot conspiracy theory. As many have rightly assumed from the outset, that controversy was, in fact, not a byproduct of the strategy - it was the strategy: if you're talking about Sun, you're not talking about the other guy. And then you'll buy a datacenter. But now that we've firmly established our...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/a_new_strategy |