Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva' 330
Danese Cooper is Manager of Sun's Open Source Program Office. A Google search on Danese turns up more than 1000 results. She's a frequent speaker at IT industry events and conferences, and is, without question, Sun's staunchest internal Open Source advocate. Sun is moving toward Open Source in fits and starts, and Danese is behind a lot of that motion. Feel free to ask her anything you want (one question per post. please) about the trials and tribulations of being an Open Source person within a company that hasn't yet fully grasped the concept, and how she goes about trying to change that. We'll post her answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions within the next week or so. The only question she can't answer is whether/when Java might be Open Sourced. I already asked her, and she replied, "Sadly, I have no news on that..."
Re:JBoss and Tomcat. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Open Source Solaris? (Score:2, Informative)
Sun actually had SunOS available on i386 before that (on the Sun 386i).
Photo of Danese Cooper (Score:2, Informative)
she [sun.com] looks like....
Re:Has StarOffice been a failure? (Score:2, Informative)
A followup on that question: can Sun break the normal reluctance of major companies to use something without all three of
- a distribution kit (a CD at least)
Here is your CD [sun.com]
- a service contract (even if they don't actually buy it) and
Here is your support contract, both free and pay versions. [sun.com]
- a popular book.
Here are enough books to fill a shelf. [amazon.com]