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		Simon Phipps Simon.Phipps@sun.com 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. Weblogs A JCK for OpenJDK My comments are over on my "real" blog, but I felt today was a day to share with java.net :-) Welcome, IT Conversations Listeners I'm interviewed today on IT Conversations and the blog links take listeners to some less used places in my blog-o-rama, so this... JavaOne Bloggers Party If you are in San Francisco next week and you have a blog, you are invited to the Java Bloggers Beer Bash at ,A HREF="http://www.thirstybear.com/">the Thirsty Bear on Wednesday evening. It's... Reserve Seats at JavaOne I'm just sitting on a preparatory call for JavaOne, and someone mentioned that people with a full conference pass can actually reserve a seat at the technical sessions. Just go use the... Thoughts on Open Sourcing Sun's Java Implementations For the last few months I've been writing an occasional series on the issues surrounding open sourcing Sun's Java implementations over on my other... Bloggers, Beer and JavaOne 2006 As I mentioned yesterday on my other blog,I have just confirmed with the folks at the Thirsty Bear that we can have... The Java Up-tick I just got off stage at JavaOne Japan, where I was talking about Open Source - the philosophy, the community, the reality. After the talk I was asked how important the union of open source and... Sun's Java EE Implementation Open Source I was privileged this morning to be the Sun executive doing the morning news call for the world's press at 7:15am here in San Francisco, and thus I had the pleasure of being the one to announce... Brazil - the Global Java Leader? I've just left an exciting week in Brazil where I had the honour to be a part of the strong and extensive Java family there. I've written before about Brazil so you may already know the respect I... Announcing Coyote I'm pleased to announce that the Coyote project is now open for business. Coyote is a module for NetBeans that adds support for scripting, initially... JavaOne - Party Party Party There' s a free event for the Java Communities on Tuesday night too - 6-9pm in the Argent hotel, Metro 3 room. I gather there will be free food and drink to be consumed in the company of community... JavaOne Blogger Meetup Got a Java blog? Come to the joint Java blogging community informal meet-up next Monday. Details at the... Heroes of Code Tucked away in the corner of the FISL exhibit hall in Porto Alegre was a stand staffed by the Brazilian OpenOffice.org group... Market Share or Sponsor Share? According to Kirk Pepperdine, Gartner does not include open source application servers in their surveys. Two interesting comments from Kirk's... Going With The Flow ... NeoOffice/J takes another stride Patrick Luby let me know that he's released v0.8 of NeoOffice/J, the Java-front-ended version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X. And that he's added... JDS & LookingGlass Webcast Coming I hear from my friend Neal that the webcast next Tuesday showing Java Desktop System should be good. Big speed step in NeoOffice/J 0.7.1 My friend Max has a new 17" Powerbook so we spent the afternoon gathering the extra software he wanted to get up to fully productive speed. Among the downloads was... NeoOffice/J 0.7 Released While we're celebrating the third birthday of OpenOffice.org, I'd like to pass huge congratulations to Patrick Luby... Monoculture Considered Harmful I commented recently that, while we can each take steps to prevent virus and worm attacks on our computer systems,... An Open Spirit In the first posting in her new weblog, Anne Thomas Manes talks about the idea of porting... Borg and the Penguin It was interesting at LinuxWorld (back near the start of August) to see how many people from Microsoft were attending. Indeed, at both my session and the one with Sterling Ball, a show of hands... Sun and Open Source - Development, not Deployment In his recent posting on java.net Alan Williamson asks how open source software can ever be profitable. I believe his thinking confuses two... Getting ready for the big bang Supernova is part of what The Register calls "a giddy social whirl of conferences... Open Design I have commented to a few people that Blogging is a Big Deal. Sun has an Open Source Info Site One link I've been surprised not to see yet on java.net is a link to the web site run by Sun's Open Source Project Office, SunSource.net. It's not exactly a '... Storm in a Soup Bowl While totally invisible to the bulk of humanity, there's been a storm in a soup bowl of late as the Great and Good of blog-tech have been focussed into a... Supernova I just signed up to deliver one of the industry perspective talks at Supernova in Washington DC. Sun Bloggers For a while now I've wanted a reference list of people at Sun who maintain weblogs (first called out by Timothy Appnel). I've not found one, so... Solving the Patent Problem Responding to my earlier posting, Glen Martin comments that: ... 1 2 next › last »