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Simon Phipps

 
Chief Open Source Officer - Sun Microsystems Inc.
 
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Company Name : Sun Microsystems Inc.
 
Company Website : www.sun.com
 
Company Address : 4150 Network Cir.
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Simon Phipps Profile :
Chief Open Source Officer - Sun Microsystems Inc.
 
Simon Phipps Biography :

Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, co-ordinating Sun's extensive participation in free and open source software communities, promoting consistency and best practice and actively participating in the global conversation they express. Prior to this appointment he co-founded Sun's pioneering staff weblog facility at blogs.sun.com. Simon joined Sun in mid-2000.

A computer industry insider of 20+ years standing, Simon has worked in such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst as well as being involved at a strategic level in some of the world's leading computer companies. Fascinated by the idea of 'action at a distance', he worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM.

Simon has served on the Community Advisory Boards of OpenSolaris and currently serves on the GNOME, OpenSPARC and OpenJDK communities. He holds a degree in electronic engineering and is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the British Computer Society where he is on the committee of his local branch.

To learn more about Sun's engagement with open source visit sun.com/opensource. His personal home page and blog is http://www.webmink.net.

 
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Jonathan Schwartz

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Stephen Bennett

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James Barksdale

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Gregory Papadopoulos

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Bret Schaefer

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