New CEO
April 25, 2006 General Comments Off on New CEOPretty excited to see that Jonathan has taken on the CEO role at Sun. I remember being disappointed when Jonathan moved up the chain away from Software a couple of years ago – it was at a time when software *really* needed some direction in Sun, and Jonathan was helping to provide that. I thought he would get into the executive ladder and we’d probably never hear from him again and we’d fall back into another rut. Fortunately that proved not the case. I really rate Jonathan. He cares about the things that I’m also interested in, believe best for Sun and the things that keep me working for this company – among which, open development of open standards in open communities. Not only that, he understands those principles and openly communicates both internally and externally – how often do you see a CEO take part in an open public discussion or have comments enabled on his blog? Jonathan sent a pretty excellent internal memo around of his thoughts about accepting the job – I sure hope he copies that mail to his blog, it’s a great motivating message.
Still, also nice to see Scott hanging around as well as chairman of the board, and Sun Fed – it’ll be important to have someone up there with years of contacts, level headed experience of running the company, and well, someone with a decent handycap.
