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James Gosling

Vice President and Sun Fellow

Widely known as the father of Java, James is currently a researcher at Sun Labs where his primary interest is software development tools. With a worldwide fan base, he continues to be a humble, down to earth guy.

Read James' Blog (Java Store β: payment and a new client)

James Gosling on Java Technology
James explains how Java has found its place with today's consumers.

Gosling Elected to National Academy of Engineering
James recieves a prestigous award for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java.

Watch James at JavaOne 2008
James addresses a packed house in San Francisco on Friday, May 9th. See what the buzz is all about.



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John Fowler

Executive Vice President, Systems

John is responsible for the delivery of Sun's systems products, including SPARC and x64-based servers. And he's become one of YouTube's most compelling participants.

Sun Systems: Innovation = New Economics
John Fowler's presentation for SAS Road Show 2009.

It's Time To Change Your Storage
Sun EVP, Systems, John Fowler introduces the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.


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David Douglas Cloud Computing

David Douglas

Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Developer Platforms; Chief Sustainability Officer

Dave is responsible for Sun's cloud computing business, with a focus on creating reliable, scalable and sustainable computing and storage servers, as well as the company's developer tools and services.

Read Dave's Blog (Thoughts on the Future of Green Marketing)

Sun and Cloud Computing
Dave gives an update at the Sun Analyst Series on Cloud Computing.
Dave's monthly Environmental Leader column

The Greenest Computer Company Under The Sun
'Going green' is good for business, too, and Sun is "ahead of its peers in the scope and seriousness of its multi-tentacled environmental efforts", from Fortune.

Innovators: Efficiency Matters
Dave Douglas helps rein in energy appetites of computer data centers, in a Sierra Magazine cover story.


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Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps

Chief Open Source Officer and Director, Open Technologies Practice

Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, co-ordinating Sun's extensive participation in free and open source software and open standards communities, promoting consistency and best practice and actively participating in the global conversation they express.

Read Simon's Blog

Open-Source Technology in Emerging Markets
Video of Simon on Marketwatch.com


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Ingrid Van Den Hoogen

Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing

As Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Ingrid drives Sun's brand, global communications and marketing communications efforts.

Sun Analyst Series 2008
Watch Ingrid talk about some of Sun's main strategies for growth.

Listen to Ingrid 'Talk Brand'
Ingrid discusses the evolution of Sun's brand in a Voices in Business B2B Marketing Podcast.

Why Sun Microsystems Gives its Hardware Away*
Ingrid talks about the unique program, Try and Buy, that allows customers to test Sun's hardware free for 60 days.


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Mike Dillon

General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal

Mike leads a worldwide organization consisting of three functions: Legal, International Trade Services, and Business Conduct.

Read Mike's Blog (Change)

Opening Up On Open Source
Daily Journal Newswire article.

Q&A With The Wall Street Journal
A Wall Street Journal interview about patent trolls, Microsoft, and other topics from Mike's blog.

A New Standard for Transparency
Sun's General Counsel discusses openness, and calls on the SEC for RegFD changes in this BusinessWeek op-ed.


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Bob Worrall

Chief Information Officer

As Sun's Chief Information Officer, Bob Worrall is responsible for all aspects of Sun's global IT infrastructure and line-of-business application development, support and maintenance, including information service delivery and security.

Forbes.com: Sun Microsystems' IT Tips
Computing giant says CIOs need to be more hands-on and creative.

computing.co.uk Q & A Ð Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall
On the datacenter challenges facing IT managers, why IT service provision is changing and what problems will it present to IT managers.

Next Gen DataCenter
Bob Worrall highlights Sun MD, Virualization and Sun's Eco story to explain how these newest technologies play a role in Sun's IT strategy.

A Green Budget Line
Forbes commentary on improving data center efficiency and cost effectiveness.

Squeezing green from the data center
CNET op-ed: Run your data centers more efficiently.

Sun's eco-friendly data centers
Making data centers more energy efficient


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Lin Lee

Vice President, Global Communities

Lin Lee leads a globally dispersed team that collaborates with governments, academic institutions and student communities and drives an understanding of how technology can be used to transform opportunity in both emerging and developed nations.

Blog Talk Radio-Education and Sun's Global Communities
Lin Lee talks about the transformation of education and IT in the face of a down economy as well as next week's Education Research Conference.

Fostering New Technologies in Global Communities
Lin Lee describes how open technology can create new opportunities in emerging and developed countries.

Sun injects Euro universities with OpenSparc
The Register article on Sun and the great tech feedback loop.

Europractice, Sun team for multicore design support
Sun Microsystems and Europractice team up for a three-year project.

Sun offers open source multicore processor support to universities
Electronics Weekly article on SMI and Europractice practice to benefit European Universities.


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Anil Gadre

Executive Vice President, Application Platform Software

Anil is responsible for leading Sun's open source based software businesses ranging from the popular MySQL opensource database, Software Infrastructure including Identity and the opensource GlassFish application server, Java including Java FX and Sun Learning Services.

Anil Gadre's SAS Road Show 2009 Software presentation
Growing Application Platform Software Business Through Open


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Emerging Markets
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