Simon Phipps speaks frequently at industry events on Free and Open Source software, technology trends and futures. At various times he has programmed mainframes, Windows and on the Web. Currently the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., he was previously involved in OSI standards in the 80s, in the earliest commercial collaborative conferencing software in the early 90s and in introducing Java and XML to IBM. He lives in the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California and can be contacted via http://www.webmink.net. He also maintains a personal blog and a work-related blog in addtion to this Java-related one.