It’s been (almost) a year since Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun. Some of the ex-Sun folks stayed at Oracle but others moved to other companies, small and large, public, private or still in stealth mode. This Diaspora will contribute talent, expertise and experience to many companies, and, I hope, also some of the culture at Sun that I’ve enjoyed for so many years.
Below is a list of companies where some of my ex-Sun friends have gone. I’ve listed explicitly the people that left Sun/Oracle after January 2010, but I’ve also included a few other ex-Sun folks that are in the company – as you can see, Sunnites like to work together
Added – Also see A Year After: The Open Source Projects.
Note This list is somewhat random and biased because of my personal contacts at Sun but post corrections and additions as comments to this entry and I’ll continue to update it as time permits
Accenture
- Will Snow – LinkedIn
- Linda Skrocki – LinkedIn, My Next Gig
- Liz Ditucci – LinkedIn
- Joe Mocker – LinkedIn
- Matthew Montgomery – LinkedIn
Akamai
Other ex-Sunnites include Matt Stevens
ApexIdentity
Apple
- Tim Marsland – LinkedIn
Availity
- Carold McDonald – LinkedIn
Avast
- Lukas Hasik – So Long and Thanks for the Fish, LinkedIn
- Petr Chytil – LinkedIn
- Michal Vanek – LinkedIn
- Jan Prach – LinkedIn
Axolotl
- Terena Chinn-Fuji – LinkedIn
Bank Of America
Ex-Sunites include Roderico Cruz
CA Technologies
Ex-Sunites include recent moves by Roman Strobl, James Branam, Karel Nenicka. Also Jim Engquist, Michael Walker
Carpathia Hosting
Ex-Sun folks include Peter Weber, Bill Ranney, Jon Greaves, Philip Hedlund, Brian Winter, Brent Bensten, Kasey Bradshaw, Paul Roberts and Tim Kennedy.
Cisco
- Greg Lavender – LinkedIn
- Lew Tucker – tweet, LinkedIn
- Rudolf Kutina – LinkedIn
- Rakesh Menon – JavaFX – My Wish List, LinkedIn
- Jill Welch – LinkedIn
CloudBees/InfraDNA
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi – Introducting InfraDNA, InfraDNA joins CloudBees
- Vivek Pandey – LinkedIn
- Harpreet Singh – LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunnites include Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart as a technical advisor.
Compuware
Other ex-Sunnited include Doug Willoughby.
Conga
Continuent
- Giuseppe Maxia – LinkedIn
CumuLogic
Data Differential
Dell
Other ex-Sunites include Ken Drachnik, Laurie Tolson, Uday Subbrarayan
Delphix
- Adam Leventhal – Leaving Oracle, Joining Delphix
- Eric Schrock – MovingOn, LinkedIn
- Matt Ahrens – LinkedIn
- George Wilson – LinkedIn
eBay
Other ex-Sunites include Josep Ferrandiz, Ramesh Mandava,
Eucalyptus
Other ex-Sunites include Tim Cramer and Maarten Mickos
EngineYard
Ex-Suites include Nick Sieger, Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo. They all left Sun before CiC but after the announcement of acquisition… And, FWIW, Michael Piech just moved there.
EnterpriseDB
Forrester Research
Ex-Sunnites include Eve Maler – LinkedIn
ForgeRock
- Simon Phipps – blog
- Lasse Andresen – LinkedIn
- Ludo Poitou – Moving on; LinkedIn
- Peggy Harrington – LinkedIn
- Andreas Egloff – LinkedIn; tweet
ForgeRock has many ex-Sunites including Stein Myrseth, Victor Ake, Anders Askåsen and Allan Foster. Post anniversary changes include:
- Matthew Swift – Webmink
Fusion.io
- Teresa Swart – LinkedIn
Gartner
- Ross Altman – LinkedIn
Google
- Ron Ten-Hove – LinkedIn
- Frank Kieviet – moving on
- Igor Minar – change of status // thanks for all the Fish
- Tor Norbye – moving my blog
- Tim Bray – Now a No-Evil Zone
- Alex Ruiz – Leaving Oracle
- Amanda Waite – LinkedIn
- Bill Sommerfeld – Comment
- Ari Shamash – LinkedIn
Google is chock full of ex-Sunites, from Eric Schmidt down. Some recent moves there include Ken Russell, Chet Haase
Guidewire Software
Other ex-Sunnites include Phil Goodwin, Peter Williams,
Harvard
- Susan Landau – Fellow at Radcliffe
Huawei
Other ex-Sunites include: Mark Hapner, Linda Schneider, Jim Hughes and John Plocher. Geoff Arnold is now at Yahoo and Pat Patterson is now at SourceForge.
HP
- Terri Molini – LinkedIn
- Brian Moriarty – LinkedIn
- Rudolf Kutina – LinkedIn
- Marc Hamilton – Joining HP
- Josh Marinacci – Blog, Leaving Sun Joining Palm
- Dan Baigent – LinkedIn
- Laura Hill – LinkedIn
- Eileen Schefsky – LinkedIn
Julianne provides this list of ex-Sunites: Julianne Raedeke, Gerry Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Hadden, Marcos Peixoto, Sean Cochrane, Tim Thomas
ICANN
- Whit Diffie – Wikipedia
IBM
Other ex-Sunnites include Jason Shao and Dave Johnson
InnovativeInterfaces
- Russ Tremain – LinkedIn
InsideHPC
- Rich Brueckner – insideHPC
Informatica
- Juan Carlos Soto – LinkedIn
Intel
- Radia Perlman – Wikipedia
Intuit
Other ex-Sunnites include Mark Basler, Tayloe Stansbury, Vijay Anand, Vinay Pai, Deepa Singh, Bill Keenan
JavaPassion.com
- Sang Shin – LinkedIn
Juniper Networks
- Jeet Kaul
- Hal Stern – LinkedIn
- Dale Ferrario – LinkedIn
- Valerie Alabanza-Cary – LinkedIn
- Ray Cannon – LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunites include Mark Bauhaus, Connie Weiss, Mike Harding.
Jive Software
- Craig McClanahan – LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunites include James Todd and Mike Cumings
Joyent
- Deirdré Straughan – My New Job
- Bryan Cantrill (VP Eng) – Hello Joyent! and Press Release
- Brendan Greg – G’Day and Goodbye and Joyent
- Jerry Jellinek – An End and a Beginning, LinkedIn
- Dave Pacheco – Leaving Oracle, LinkedIn
- Robert Mustacchi – LinkedIn, tweet.
- Bill Pijewski – LinkedIn
- Shannon Fiume – LinkedIn
- John Sonnenschein – Emancipation: LeavingSun^HOracle, LinkedIn
Kerio Technologies
Ex-Sunnites include Pavel Suk.
Kii, Inc
Other ex-Sunites include Miko Matsumura
KIT Digital
- Ivan Vlasyuk – LinkedIn
Liferay
Other ex-Sunites include Paul Hinz
LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunites include Jacob Kessler
MariaDB
Other ex-Sunites include Michael (Monty) Widenius, Colin Charles
MasterCard
- Chris Kampmeier – LinkedIn
Membase
Micro Focus
Ex-Sunnites include Brit Hickman (LInkeIn)
Microsoft
- Matt Thompson – comment, LinkedIn
- Jean Elliott – LinkedIn
- Sanjay Sharma – LinkedIn
- Jennifer Umstattd – LinkedIn
- Doris Chen –LinkedIn
- Cliff Allen – LinkedIn
- Gary Dahlby – LinkedIn
- Neeta Saran – LinkedIn
- Marc Walters – LinkedIn
Micello
Ex-Sunites include Prakash Narayan
Mirapoint
- Masayuki Imai – LinkedIn
Mitre
- Marc Hadley – LinkedIn, Time for a Change
Navteq
- Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas – Linkedin
NASA
- Chris Webster – LinkedIn
NComputing
NetApp
- Octavian Tanase – LinkedIn
- Bob Porras – Back in the Storage Saddle
Other ex-Sunites include Ricardo Labiaga
Net, Power and Light
Ex-Sunites incude Rob Gingell
Nexenta
Nokia
- David Bryant – LinkedIn
- David Folk – LinkedIn
- Ana Lindstrom-Tamer – LinkedIn
- David Hofert – LinkedIn
- Amy O’Connor – LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunites include Rich Green and David Rivas
Paypal
- Aravindan Rangahatahn – LinkedIn
PlumChoice
Profiq
- Rasta (Rastilav) Kanocz
- Gabor Puhalla
Proofpoint
Quanta Research Institute
- Peter Jones – LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunites include Steve Heller – LinkedIn
Rackspace
- Vivek Nagar – LinkedIn
- Lee Bieber – LinkedIn
- Jay Pipes – LinkedIn
- Ed Conzel – LinkedIn
- Monty Taylor – LinkedIn
- Stewart Smith – LinkedIn
RedHat
Other ex-Sunites include Rich Sharples, Keith Babo, Prakash Aradhya, Shelly McGowan,
RIM
Other ex-Sunites include Alan Brenner, Nedim Fresko, Curtis Sasaki, Mimi Hills, Rob Mori, Peter Dever, Andreas Hoffman, Stanley Ho, Tom Goguen, Martin Brehovsky
SalesForce
- Pat Patterson – LinkedIn
- Neel Nadgir – My Last Day at Sun
- Matt Wolf – LinkedIn
- Brad Wheat – LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunites include Chuck Mortimore, Kavindra Patel
SAP
Other ex-Sunites include Shel Finkelstein, Larry Cable,
SAS Institute
- Mark White – LinkedIn
Search Optics
- Jim Parkinson – CTO
SkySQL
Ex-Sunites include Patrik Backman, David Axmark, Kath O’Neil, Sean Pringle, all from the MySQL AB acquisition.
SnapLogic
- Kartik Mithal – LinkedIn
Sonatype
Sony Ericsson
Ex-Sunites include Peter Kacandes
SunGard
- Satish Hemachandran – LinkedIn
Sunrise Technologies
Tibco
Ex-Sunites include Marina Sum and Stephanie Bodoff
Time Warner Cable
ThoughtWorks
- Dan Roberts – LinkedIn
TouchTable
- Dave Douglas – LinkedIn, My New Gigs
VMWare
- Jim Waldo – LinkedIn
- Julio Tapia – LinkedIn
- Josh Simons – LinkedIn
- Jonathan Nimer – LinkedIn
- Pablo Roesch – LinkedIn
- Martin Englund – LinkedIn
- Matt Marquis – LinkedIn
- Leif Frykman – LinkedIn
- Phillip Eck – LinkedIn
Ex-Sunites include: Rich McDougall
Walt Disney Co
Whamcloud, LLC
The TheRegister and HPCwire say that Byron Neitzel, Peter Jones and Andreas Dilger “have recently joined”.
WonderBuilders, LLC
Xyratex
- Peter Bojanic – LinkedIn
Yahoo!
- Shanti Subramayam – Starting anew
- Jan Luehe – LinkedIn
- Bharath Mundlapudi – LinkedIn
- Nandini Ektare – LinkedIn
- Kelly Palmer – LinkedIn
- Brynna Donn – LinkedIn
Other ex-Sunites include Geoff Arnold, Mary Smaragdis, Tony Ng, Paul Ko, Sanjay Radia, Mike Bellissimo, Brandon Carson
Zendesk
- Zack Urlocker – LinkedIn
Startups in Stealth Mode, Independent Developers and Undeclared
- Ken Saks
- Stephen Hahn – Penultimate
- Jeff Bonwick – blog
- Mike Shapiro – End of File
- Bill Moore – LinkedIn
- Sunay Tripathi – LinkedIn
- Bob Brewin – LinkedIn
- Kedar Mhaswade – LinkedIn
- Paul Sandoz – Blog
Other Transitions
- James Gosling – Blog
- Scott McNealy – Interview
- Jonathan Schwartz – A Picture of Health; Blog, website.
- Greg Papadopoulos – LinkedIn
- Andy Bechtolsheim – Arista Networks (and others)
180s (in honor of Duncan)
- Christian Kennerknecht – SMB Owner – Bavarian Pretzel Works, LinkedIn
- Mark Herring – SMB Owner – CertaPro Painters, Lynnwood, LinkedIn
- Nicolas Pujol – entrepreneur, investor & author – home page, SSRN papers
Castellers 
Bill Pijewski (former Fishworks) went to Joyent about the same time as Dave Pacheco.
Matt Ahrens & George Wilson (former ZFS guys) also went to Delphix.
Some other landings of note include:
Marc Hamilton – HP
Peter Bojanic – Xyratex
Rich Brueckner – insideHPC
Andy Bechtolsheim – Arista Networks
Thanks for the pointers, Rich.
I’ll add Marc & you. Can you ask Peter for his OK on listing him here?
Andy left Sun in late 2008 – and I don’t have any friends that joined there, so I think I’ll skip Arista – I have to place the boundary somewhere.
Ken Russell – Former maintainer of the JOGL project and person responsible for writing the java applet plugin2, now at Google working on WebGL.
Thanks; I’ll add Ken to the next update!
Excellent list. I see a lot of names I respect up there.
We’re not as cool as the others, but Trond Norbye (Tor’s brother) and I joined NorthScale, now renamed Membase, as a startup.
Also, Shanti Subramanyam from PAE is now part of the Yahoo! performance team. Neel Nadgir had also left that team for SalesForce I think.
My bad; I meant to add you and then forgot. I’ll add you in the update. And you guys are as cool as any of the others!! 🙂
Reminder to self: Add Bob Porras, at NetApp
Note to self (via DeirdreS):
Joyent: JohnS, Max Bruning, Shannon Fiume, Bill Pijewski, Robert Mustacchi
Nexenta: Richard Elling
StartUps: Bill Moore
Note to self:
Add Jacob Kessler (pre-CiC) moved to LinkedIn
I am with CumuLogic.com, a PaaS enabling startup. Good luck with your new role at RIM
Hi Rajesh. Do you want to ask other Cumu Logic ex-Sun guys if they want to be listed here? If so, please add a comment with their names.
Laura Ventura is with CumuLogic as well.
Hi! This is a great list and it’s really great to see where everyone ended up. These are some lucky companies. Hope to run into all of you again sometime.
Note to self:
Add Robin Schumaker at EnterpriseDB
Rakesh Menon to Cisco http://rakeshmenonp.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/javafx-my-wish-list/
Josh Marinacci to Palm http://www.java.net/blogs/joshy/
Thanks. I’ll ping them to get their latest status
Note to Self:
In a “Side Move” section, Christian Kennerknecht’s Pretzel Business 🙂
And need to check with a couple more.
Note to self:
Add NicolasPujol.com.
Add Eucalyptus with Tim Cramer and Maarten Mickos as “other ex-Sunites”
Feeling a little left out here…
Matt Thompson – Microsoft
Jean Elliott – Microsoft
Sanjay Sharma – Microsoft
Jennifer Umstadt – Microsoft
Doris Chen – Microsoft
Thanks for the list, Matt. I’ll update the post with MS inthe next version.
In my defense, I had started the list with just those folks that had left after CiC, and neither you nor Jean fit that, and I didn’t know about the rest 🙂
And after all these years Matt can’t spell my last name 🙂
Sorry for not catching it, Jenniffer! I had tried to find you on LinkedIn but couldn’t… now I know why. I fixed the spelling and added the link.
No worries! I will have to give Matt some grief though 🙂
Hi
James Khoo here from Malaysia, ex Sun Employee, attached to Sun Java Centers as Java Architect, has help many Sun’s partner and customer on rolling out large scale Java EE application.
I just started my own company, http://secq.me, a new mobile tracking service that aim helping reduce crime rate against woman and children. Sorry for a bit introduction of our company here.
Also at Kii, Inc.
Cool. I didn’t know, congrats.
Eduardo, here are a few others:
will snow, linda skrocki, liz ditucci, joe mocker, matthew montgomery (web engineering group) to Accenture – some of us pre-CIC, some after 😉
Curtis Sasaki, Andreas Hoffmann RIM
Thanks, Will. Nice group of people a Accenture. I’ll add a section in the next revision, later in the week.
I already had Curtis and Andreas in the RIM section.
nobody went to ibm ??
I don’t recall anybody going there recently. Dave Johnson joined there in early 2009, but that was because of a RIF due to financial stress, and it was before the IBM or the Oracle acquisition rumors/announcements.
Alex Ruiz just went to Oracle:
http://alexruiz.developerblogs.com/?p=1809
Whoops, Google.
Txs. Just saw it. Will include in update.
Note to self:
Sunay Tripathi at startup in stealth mode
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/04/whamcloud_lustre_hires/
Thanks for the lead. I was never very close to the Lustre guys but I’ll include a reference to this somewhere in the updated version.
Martin Englund – VMware
Thanks, Martin. Let me know if I am still missing key VMware guys.
Note to Self:
* Bob Brewin – Stealth Startup
Just saw this today, another Sun/Oracle –> Google:
http://alexruiz.developerblogs.com/?p=1809
Humm.
I don’t see it as a privacy issue. All these folks have either blogged about their departure AND/OR posted about it in public mailing lists AND/OR advertised it in their public LinkedIn profile AND/OR commented here AND/OR told me to please advertise it here.
I’d describe this more as an example of crowd-sourcing to compile a shared document.
FWIW, I know of additional names that I have not listed because I either know they do not want to share the info or because I am not sure if they do.
I’m also at Google now, although the only way you’d know that is through my LinkedIn profile. Thanks for taking the time to put the list together.
Amanda
Its a collective effort.
Nice to see how many cos are “infected by Sun”
Hey Eduardo – I also decamped to Nokia on 6/1. Thanks for the list – and, BTW, agree on the privacy point. Just look up anyone of interest on LinkedIn and you’ll see where they are now. Cheers & good luck!
Dave
Hi Dave! Will you be in Barcelona next month? Perhaps enough of us will be there to arrange a get-together 🙂
Hi Eduardo – nice to see a mention from you, even though I didn’t hang around for CiC 🙂
One correction – Geoff Arnold moved on from Huawei to Yahoo a few weeks before I moved to salesforce.com.
Plenty of other ex-Sun folks at SFDC, but I’m not sure you’d know that many. Here’s a few off the top of my head… Chuck Mortimore (left Sun years ago, but top bloke), Brad Wheat (CiC), Matt Wolf (shortly before CiC), Kavindra Patel (left Sun years ago, but you might have known him).
Thanks for the update on Geoff.
I will add Brad as a “bullet” (CiC) and the rest in the “Other ex-Sunites include” paragraph.
Don’t forget “the JRuby guys” (Charles Nutter, Tom Enebo, Nick Sieger) at EngineYard.
In retrospective, I should have looked at people’s moves after the Oracle/Sun deal was announced in April 2009. People like Nick, Charlie and Tom left after that but I didn’t list initially because they didn’t move before CiC.
I’ll add a section on EngineYard and will list them there.
Carol McDonald – Availity
Got it, Carol. Thanks.
Meredithe Mainquist GridIron Systems Sunnyvale CA
Marcos Piexoto HP
Frank Varella – Dell
Jason Appelbaum – Dell
AJ Kreshok – HP
Ellen Steiner – Energy Market Innovations
Tim Jolly – Seagate
Cathy Bilafer – Kronos
Dan Butzer – Acadia Enterprises
Russ Smariga – Deloitte
Tom Broussard – IBM
Linda Hummel – VMware
Chuck Otts – Cisco
Herb Hinstorff – Intel
AJ Hart – HP
Joe Freeill – Compuware
Hi Meredithe. Can I assume you know all these folks don’t mind me posting the info in the main summary page? I don’t have direct relationships with any of them, but I’m happy to list them in the “Other ex-Sun folks include” sections for each company after some quick checks at LinkedIn. Over the weekend…
I know of many other ex-Sunnies who’ve joined HP in the last year; all of the below list HP as their current employer on their linked in profiles, so I feel comfortable sharing:
Julianne Raedeke – http://www.linkedin.com/in/julianneraedeke
Gerry Fitzpatrick – http://www.linkedin.com/in/gerryfitzpatrick
Jennifer Hadden – http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferleighhadden
Marcos Peixoto – http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marcos-peixoto/1/961/701
Sean Cochrane – http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sean-cochrane/0/241/b45
Tim Thomas – http://uk.linkedin.com/in/timthomas1961
thanks. I’ll check and will update on the weekend.
Great list!
In someways the collective of twitter entries and blog postings by ex-Sunnites after CiC seemed like group therapy.
I know of one ex-Sun who went the other way and joined Oracle: Charles Ditzel.
On VMWare, many of the ex-Jini folk are there: Jim Waldo, Peter Jones. And also Matt Marquis and Jonathan Nimer.
Jason Shao went to IBM.
Sudhu Pant – Nokia
Stanley Ho is also at RIM.
Peter Jones seems to have joined Steve Heller at Quanta Research. Jim seems to still be at VMware.
Note to self:
Add Corina Ulescu and Stephen Dever – at RIM
Note to self:
Add Martin Brehovsky at RIM
You omitted me – now at SAS Institute.
Sorry, Mark. I knew you were there but forgot to include you. Will do so today.
I landed at Disney with Ted Leung. Thanks for putting this list together. It’s great to see so many talented Sun people in new homes.
Hi Nigel. I’ll add you today.
I agree, it is very comforting to see friends find good matches.
VMware has a lowercase ‘w’ and a lot more ex-Sun people from before 2010.
Thanks, Matt. Mostly I’m creating the list based from my circle of friends, either because I remember where they went or because I find them in LinkedIn. I’m not 100% consistent, but I try to give “bullets” to friends that left Sun before CiC, and list under “Other ex-Sunites” all friends and/or folks that left not “too long” ago.
But I’m including also anybody that is mentioned in a comment, so very happy to include any ex-Sun folks that are at VMware, just list them in a comment.
Jan Luehe: Yahoo! Inc.
Kedar Mhaswade: Self
Russ Tremain: Interactive Interfaces, Emeryville
Thanks, Kedar. I’m catching up with comments today (I hope)
Hi Eduardo – Thanks for helping keeping former Sun people connected. FYI, I’m now at Guidewire Software in San Mateo (with many others from Sun).
Thanks, Mike. I’ve added a few of you.
I’m currently working in the online video team at Time Warner Cable. My team is responsible for most of the TWC stuff being demo’ed at CES. I was working on xVM and Project Kenai while at Sun.
Fred
I forgot to mention Eric Wendelin who is also at TWC.
You beat me to it, Fred, as usual 🙂
Was it mentioned that these are just the voluntary deparatures?
I believe the majority of the people listed here left voluntarily, but not all of them did.
nice list eduardo!
Thanks. Anybody else I should be listing from Jive?
yeah:
mike cumings : http://www.linkedin.com/in/mcumings (recent hire)
btw, jive is hiring. i can help w/ inquiries.
Note to self:
Check who else is at CumuLogic.
More…
Harvard:
Susan Landau (from Sun Labs – cryptography, security): http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2011slandau.aspx
Huawei:
Kais Belgaied (Solaris networking/Crossbow),
John Plocher (OpenSolaris, Sun ARC)
ICANN:
Whit Diffie (from Sun Labs – public key encryption): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie
Intel:
Radia Perlman (from Sun Labs – networking): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman
PostgreSQL Experts, Inc:
Josh Berkus
VMWare:
Another ex-sunite from well before the Oracle acquistion, Rich McDougall, co-author of Solaris Internals: http://blog.richardmcdougall.com/
Thanks. I’ll add as bullets or as “ex-S include” as appropriate.
Here are updates some of the people that I am connected to (all this information is public):
Todd Fast, Ryan Kennedy – Conga (http://www.linkedin.com/in/toddfast and http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanekennedy)
Chris Webster – NASA (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-webster/0/181/a4b)
Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas – Navteq (http://www.linkedin.com/in/ragss)
Uday Subbarayan – Dell (http://www.linkedin.com/in/udays)
Marina Sum – Tibco (http://www.linkedin.com/in/marinasum)
Roderico Cruz – Bank of America (http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodericocruz)
Prakash Narayan – Micello (http://www.linkedin.com/in/prakashnarayan)
Thanks, Prakash. I’ll update the post with this info later in the week.
You missed out the lot of us that went to Monty Program Ab to hack on MariaDB.
There’s me, Monty (I know he left before that January 2010 date) and more. Company is made up of
SkySQL also has a lot more: Kath O’Neil, Sean Pringle, and more
That’s just me focusing on the MySQL diaspora!
cheers,
-c
Hi Colin. Will be happy to include a section on MariaDB. I didn’t include it initially because I couldn’t think of anybody that had left after CiC, but I didn’t think very hard and I’m now including sections even in cases for folks that left after Announcement but before CiC.
I think your comment was truncated, can you check if that is the case and, if so, post a follow-up with the extra names?
I’ll also update the SkySQL names, no later than next weekend.
Thanks Eduardo; miss ya.
We are all here! 🙂 RIM is across from Oracle’s HQ. Maybe we can have lunch one day you go up there.
There are a couple more of us former Sun people now at Guidewire Software:
Paul Fussell, Sr. Technical Writer
Kevin McDonnell, Sr. Software Engineer
Kevin’s LinkedIn profile is at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=5654284
–Paul
Thanks, Paul. I’ll update that section.
Adobe Systems:
Aaron Houston — Adobe Community Mgr No. Amer. Flash/Flex/AIR Creative Suite UGs (formerly Java User Group Program Coord + helped OpenSolaris UserGrps)
Janice Campbell — Adobe Flex SDK +translation projects (formerly NetBeans Translation Projects)
Sun Legal Diaspora:
Microsoft – Cliff Allen, Gary Dahlby, Neeta Saran and Marc Walters
Juniper Networks: Valerie Alabanza-Cary and Ray Cannon
HP: Eileen Schefsky
VMware: Leif Frykman, Matt Marquis, Phillip Eck and Jonathan Nimer
NetApp – Orlena Fong Shek and Scott Vonderohe
Thanks, Cliff. Good to know so many of you have landed in good places. I’ll update the post with the information sometime this week.
More Sun -> Yahoos:
Kelly Palmer
Brandon Carson
Brynna Donn
Thanks, Brandon. Will update this week.
Thank you for your comment to my blog entry.(http://blogs.sun.com/maimai/entry/leave_from_oracle_but_sun#comments)
My new location is Mirapoint Japan K.K. (Japan Office of Mirapoint Software, inc.).
My LinkedIn profile is here http://jp.linkedin.com/pub/masayuki-imai/13/96/40b .
Got it. Best luck there!
Great idea. Can add me as well? I’m at Guidewire Software adn my linkedin profile is here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-williams/0/98/ba0
former sun/netbeans -> sonatype
http://cz.linkedin.com/in/mkleint
Cool. Does Sonatype have a subsidiary in Prague or did you move. Will add you with JFA.
Eduardo, great list.
I went back to Gartner.
Hi Ross. Will create a Gartner section for you. Best wishes!
Eduardo: This is neat. FYI: I am Cisco and have been since last spring. Best to you.
Thanks, Jill. I’ll add you to the Cisco section. Best wishes!
Great blog! Please add the following:
James Branam – CA Technologies (formerly CA)
Ruth Kusterer – CA Technologies (formerly CA)
Karel Nenicka – CA Technologies (formerly CA)
Robert Novak – CA Technologies (formerly CA)
David Simonek – CA Technologies (formerly CA)
Josef Pavlicek – IBM
Brad Schmidt – KIT Digital
Ivan Vlasyuk – KIT Digital
Thanks!
–James
Got it, James. Will update this evening.
This is a fantastic list – thanks for putting in the effort.
I’m at Carpathia Hosting as an Implementation Manager. I came over just post-CIC, and Kevin Spalding and Bob Austin have joined recently on our Tech-Ops team. We also have a large contingent of ex-Sun folks that came over before the acquisition – including our CEO, Peter Weber. Others are Bill Ranney, Jon Greaves, Brent Bensten, Kasey Bradshaw, Paul Roberts and Tim Kennedy.
Thanks again,
Courtney Ferry
Thanks to you for the pointer to Carpathia Hosting. I’ll add a section on it now.
Brian Winter, CMO, is an ex-sun guy as well.
Great post. Now if everyone on this list would just buy a copy of Liferay, well I’d be happy.
Also, Satish Hemachandran when to Sungard – http://www.linkedin.com/in/satishh
Hi Eduardo! Great idea to do this. FYI, I went to PayPal (where Aravindan Ranganathan is now) back in 2009, but as of just today, I joined Forrester Research as an analyst focusing on IAM for security and risk professionals.
Hi Eve. Congrats on the new gig. I’ll update your info.
oh – and Manish Gupta (ex Sunite) also moved to Liferay to become our GM for India.
http://in.linkedin.com/in/manishgupt
Thanks, Paul. I’ll add Satish and Manish to the list.
Nice list Eduardo, ex-Sunnies are getting like ex-IBMers – they’re everywhere ! Heres a few more
ex Sunnies at Red Hat :
Prakash Aradhya
Shelly McGowan
Kim Wilson Buck
Also, Enterprise DB
Karen Tegan Padir
Tom Kincaid
and I believe Ken MacKenzie went to Amazon
Oops – I see you have Karen and Tom already.
Thanks, Rich. Say hi to the ex-Sunnites at RHAT!
I’ll double check with Ken on the public LinkedIn – Amazon rings a bell.
Hey Eduardo – I went to Micro Focus pre CiC.
Great work Eduardo!
Could you please add the following ex-sunnies now at Sunrise Technologies (Greek startup)?
Kostas Stamatakis (http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kostasstamatakis)
Michalis Siochos (http://gr.linkedin.com/pub/michalis-siochos/2/a90/47a)
Thanks!
Sure thing. I’ll add you guys today
Excellent idea! Good luck at RIM and send regards to Czech guys there.
I moved to Kerio Technologies (before CIC).
Pavel Suk
Thanks, pavel. I’ll add you to the directory.
I’ll pass the HI along. They surround my desk (all newbies here in RWC) so I get to hear a lot of Czech nowadays 🙂
Hi Eduardo, there are a few more ex-Sunnies in Avast – Petr Chytil, Michal Vanek, Jan Prach.
Thanks, Lukas. Will update when I have a chance.
Note to self:
Add Dave Douglas http://nearwalden.com/blog/2011/01/my-new-gigs/
Note to self – add these:
Ari Shamash — Google
Amy Oconnor — Nokia
Joe Ferrill — Compuware
Jim Langston — Compuware
Doug Willoughby — Compuware ( pre CIC)
Follow my twitter (kebesays) feed for where I’m going, just like I suggested in my blog entry.
My last day working on Solaris at Oracle was November 5th. I started at Google on December 6th.
Thanks, Bill. Will add you to the Googlers section.
Note to self:
Add Matthew Swift at ForgeRock (webmink)
http://webmink.com/2011/01/31/new-opendj-architect/
Hi Eduardo,
I left Sun in Jan’10 and joined Liferay.
http://in.linkedin.com/in/manishgupt
Hi Manish. You are already listed under Liferay.
Note to self:
Nico Williams is now independent contractor
http://blogs.sun.com/nico/entry/after_eight_years_time_for
Hi Eduardo – I worked in R&D at Sun for almost 15 years and besides you, I hardly recognize any of these names! I’m mostly in touch with folks from Software Products Division, Sunlabs, Sunsoft, NSE and Javasoft. There are definitely clusters, all over the valley and elsewhere. My last corporate job was as Director of PalmOS at Palm – great engineering, but they broke my spirit for the industry with bad executive decisions. In my experience, acquisitions are hard and often done for bad reasons. If they aren’t done in order to remove the competition from the market, integrating and/or utilizing the acquisition effectively takes skilled management, a scarce commodity in this industry (see the thread about good/bad acquisitions at Sun). After a period of working on open source election systems and some years of retirement, I switched fields completely – still a quant, but no corporations for me!
Thanks for putting this list together! Great to see folks moving on to such a good list of organizations.
As Meredith Mainquist rightfully noted (on Jan 5), I am now with Deloitte, and you can list me as being there. Other ex-Sunnites at Deloitte include:
Mike Habeck
Scott Radeztsky
Bob Sokol
and
Seth Siegel
One other interesting ex-Sunnite move was recently made by Kristin Russell as she left Oracle to become the new CIO for the state of Colorado. [See: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/OIT-Main/CBON/1251588766488 ]
And now (actually about a year ago, I think) Kristin Russell is with Deloitte Consulting! 8^)
Leroy Kelley left Oracle in Feb 2010 and joined Agiliance.
After 11 years at Sun, I’m now at Cisco, where I see Lew Tucker and Tony West.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/billpetro
Blog: billpetro.com
Hey Eduardo,
We also have Dan Ingalls Jr (SunLabs) and Gilad Bracha here now, as well as Richard Probst from way back …
best regards
– Larry
Didn’t know that Dan and Gilad had moved to SAP labs. Congrats to SAP.
Say hi to Richard. I know him from way back at UC Berkeley.
– eduard/o
forgot some more ex-sunnites:
Umit Yalcinalp – Adobe
Yousef khalidi – Microsoft
And, all over the news: James Gosling is starting at Google today.
Eduardo, I’m now at NextGate.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ktschmidt
I am no longer at Time Warner Cable. I am now working through Dojo4 (http://dojo4.com) with SnuggHome (http://www.snugghome.com).
Cheers for Maintainer of List and Employees log.
Thanks!
Wow – I’m really glad someone is following all of this. Good job, Pelegri!
As of Dec 2009, Greg Baxter is @ IBM (ITSA Architecture)
Regards –
Jeff Bickart is now at NEPO Systems an Open Source solutions provider specializing in SugarCRM
Roberto Chinnici (robc2) is now at Google.
Louis Suárez-Potts left Oracle in Feb 2011 – http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2011/02/updates.html
Great effort.
I left Oracle in Dec and am now at Kaspersky Lab leading Digital Marketing for North America and Europe
Spent 10 years at Sun – sure do miss it — am with Dell now – surprised by the culture (in a very positive manner)…other ex-Sun folks I know of public knowledge via Linkedin or Facebook…
Geoff Davis – HP
Jonathan Green – HP
Pam Nicastro – Netapp
Jim Aluotto – Vmware
Jesse Singh – HP
Steve Furtado – Vmware
Eduardo,
Larry got my whereabouts right.
I am at Adobe. So are Hans Muller, Bill Maddox and Vincent Hardy.
I believe Tim Lindholm is still at Google.
Georges Saab is at Oracle.
Cheers,
–umit
Just an FYI – There is a sun_alumni Yahoo group which consists of a database of more than 3K ex-sun employees and many more subscribed to it.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/sun_alumni/
Ludo @Google now…So happy…many Sun old friends there. Surrounded with extreme geeks. Getting younger!
Change is good! Very happy for you!
Also seems your commute is very good… 🙂
Hello Eduardo,
I am at IBM now, discovering a new culture and a promising new job !
Follow me at @sebsto
Cheers !
Justin Lee leaving – http://antwerkz.com/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-glassfish/
Add me under Nexenta.
Dude, are you still taking updates? If so, put me under the Red Hat category, please.
(LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgedrapeau )
Happy New Year, everybody!
Accepting comments but I have not done an update in a bit. Maybe I should do a 2-year retrospective.
On congrats w/ the move to Red Hat! Do stay in touch!
Don’t forget Amazon. Gordon McGowan and Greg Hjelmstad are there. Lots of ex-Sun employees.
At EMC World 2014 EMC bought DSSD and it was revealed that the founders of DSSD were Sun alumni Andy Bechtolsheim, Jeff Bonwick, Mike Shapiro, Bill Moore, Stephen Hahn. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYkAhFkznPo 53:04.