Simon Phipps: Sun Open Source Officer

   

Congrats to Simon Phipps who has been promoted to Sun's Chief Open Source Officer.  I don't know if Simon's the first open source guy with such a fancy title, but it is obviously a significant endorsement both of Sun's open source strategy and their confidence in Simon to lead the charge. 

As Sun frequently points out, they've long been a supporter of open source technology and they made a major commitment earlier this year by open sourcing Solaris, their flagship operating system.  OpenSolaris appears to be gathering steam, particularly on high performance Opteron systems.  Sun has had a long history of innovation both in hardware and software and it's great that Sun is as committed as they are to open source.

A lot of people don't know it, but MySQL was actually originally written for Solaris and it has great scaleability on that platform.  In fact, we've had some excellent benchmark results on Solaris.  Some of our largest customers run MySQL on Solaris and now with OpenSolaris becoming more popular, I think there will be even more growth in this area.

• ComputerWorld: Sun creates open source office
• SunMink: Simon Phipps as open source ombudsman
• UnixReview: Review of OpenSolaris

Comments

[Simon Phipps]

Thanks for the congrats!