John Cherry's Weblog

With the merger between OSDL and FSG only a few weeks old, our CTO, Ian Murdock is heading to Sun.  Ian describes what he will be doing in his weblog...

"And, so, I’m excited to announce that, as of today, I’m joining Sun to head up operating system platform strategy. 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."

I was really looking forward to working with Ian as a colleague at The Linux Foundation, but Ian will remain focused on Linux as a platform and will remain the chairman of the LSB team.  If anyone can figure out how Solaris and Linux will play together in the future, Ian can do it.  Good luck Ian!