Ian Murdock of the Debian project will move into the world of Solaris as he joins Sun Microsystems as Chief Operating Platforms Officer.
Slackware, a formidable package that generally appealed to the hardcore geek crowd; Debian, with the began years ago. What started as a serendipitous exploration of Purdue's computer science buildings led him to that program and the Sun boxes residing there.Now he'll be a driving force behind Sun's platforms:
I’m not saying much about what I’ll be doing yet, but you can probably guess from my background and earlier writings that I’ll be advocating that Solaris needs to close the usability gap with Linux to be competitive; that while as I believe Solaris needs to change in some ways, I also believe deeply in the importance of backward compatibility; and that even with Solaris front and center, I’m pretty strongly of the opinion that Linux needs to play a clearer role in the platform strategy.
The buzz has already begun at Sun. Tech legend Tim Bray blogged that Murdock's appointment "is at the same time both brilliant and controversial, but is the logical next step as far as I am concerned." Barton George Linux Standards Base
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