Since no one else is updating the community regarding OpenSolaris governance, I will…
Our Sun internal leader, Tim Cramer, has left Sun. According to his Facebook comments it appears he’s going to Dell of his own will. This was announced Jan 12th to the OGB-Dicuss list. There has been no other announcement regarding the matter that I can find.
Apparently Vincent Murphy, Engineering Director at Sun Microsystems, will take over Tim’s duties.
In a bit of sad and concerning news, John Plocher, an active, respected, and energetic member of the OpenSolaris Governing Board has been RIF’d (Reduction In Force, the new term for “downsized”). This is yet another example of Sun letting go some of its best and most energetic people. (edited; see followup post)
Mr. Plocher is an excellent man, skilled engineer and a natural born leader. Any place that he goes will be blessed and privileged to have him, and I pray that he has the opportunity to be a voice of reason in the continued evolution of OpenSolaris. Companies looking for energetic technical community leaders should jump at the opportunity to snatch him out of the market.
The OGB’s term will end soon. Nominations will likely start up at the end of February and a new OGB will be sitting as of April 1st (if we follow this historical schedule). I am afraid for the project because so much damage has been done that I can’t think of anyone who would want to sit on the utterly useless board we have.
If you are interested in why our governing board is in such a predicament, feel free to watch my OGB Presentation at the SVOSUG in Feb of ’08 (skip into the video by 1 hour for my talk). Slides are available here. The presentation is as pertinent today as ever.
PS: If anyone thinks I’m being inflammatory in this post, don’t kid yourself, I’m biting my tongue. And if you’re an outsider, no I don’t work for Sun.
Hey I really love your technical posts, but your armchair Sun-CEOing is getting obnoxious.
Back in November you said that “the cuts, as deep and painful as they are, haven’t been deep enough.” But now that someone you respect gets the axe, Sun has its “head up its ass?”
Where do you think those thousands of people are coming from? I’m sure most of them are great people. It’s not like Sun has been keeping a basement full of mental deficients just in case they had to reduce headcount. (Ok, maybe the tape division. Ha!)
You should call Jonathan Schwartz and share the business tactic that allows you to fire 6,000 people and not lose anyone useful.
As far as RIFing is concerned: Sun is imploding upon itself.
As far as OGB: I’ve been with Solaris a decade before he was opensourced, part of the OpenSolaris community since day -1, and I still don’t understand what this stupid “OGB” is supposed to be for.
Yes, that’s right, let me write that again: STUPID OGB.
Integrating into the ONNV is the only thing that matters. Everything else is bla, bla, bla, bla…
“Ideas are expressed in code”
@Dave: how about all those managers cutting their bonuses, perks, pay and benefits?
UX-admin, I couldn’t agree with you more about Sun imploding. I’ve completely lost hope in Sun and opensolaris, and quit the opensolaris community a while back. due to their lack of openness As much as I love Solaris / Opensolaris, I’ve moved to Linux to prep myself for the future.
@Ryan, I genuinely would like to know which parts of OpenSolaris lacked openness. I’m asking this seriously as there are parts that I think should be more open but I would prefer to hear from you which parts caused you to leave the community.
Hey David,
I’m not sure where to start. My biggest frustration revolves around Sun designing and developing technologies behind closed doors (ZFS is a prime example of this, since they don’t share any roadmaps, designs or include the community in upcoming technologies), people are hesitant to talk about future features, the putback / sponsor process is still controlled by Sun (I gave up trying to putback code, since my sponsor disappeared and didn’t reply to emails), and the whole community is drive by Sun’s business needs. I love opensolaris / Solaris, but have moved to Linux since development is truly open and transparent. I hope you guys work out these issues, but I’m not going to hold my breathe.
- Ryan
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