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RIP Sun Microsystems - Commemorative Listing of Prominent Sun Employees!

It was good while it lasted - many of us had achieved amazing things, built amazing products. As my farewell I am sharing a Commemorative Listing of Prominent Sun Employees!

All the best and good luck - I hope we cross paths again soon!!!

------------ A ------------

  • Brian Aker, MySQL Director of Technology

  • Ken Arnold, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, co-author of "The Java Programming Language"

------------ B ------------

  • Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun co-founder, systems designer and Silicon Valley investor

  • Joshua Bloch, author of Effective Java

  • Jon Bosak, chair of the original XML working group

  • Jeff Bonwick, slab-allocator, vmem and ZFS

  • Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell

  • Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies

  • David J. Brown, SUN workstation and Solaris

  • Paul Buchheit, engineer at Sun from May 1997 to August 1997; Creator of Gmail

------------ C ------------

  • Bryan Cantrill, of 2005 Technology Review "Top 35 Young Innovators", co-inventor of DTrace.

  • Alfred Chuang, co-founder of BEA Systems

  • Danny Cohen, co-creator of Cohen-Sutherland line clipping algorithms, coined the computer terms "Big Endians" and "Little Endians" (Endianness)

  • Danese Cooper, Open Source Diva

------------ D ------------

  • James Duncan Davidson, creator of the Tomcat web container and the Ant build tool

  • L. Peter Deutsch, founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript

  • Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer, co-inventor of public-key cryptography

  • Robert Drost, one of Technology Review's 2004 "Top 100 Young Innovators"

------------ F ------------

  • Dan Farmer, computer security researcher

  • Marc Fleury, creator of the JBoss application server

  • Ned Freed, email systems researcher, co-author of several MIME RFCs

------------ G ------------

  • Richard P. Gabriel, Lisp expert and founder of Lucid, Inc.

  • John Gage, Chief Researcher and former Science Officer; first Sun salesman

  • John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions

  • James Gosling, co-inventor of Java; creator of NeWS networked extensible window system; author of first (proprietary) Unix Emacs implementation

  • Todd Greanier, software architect, author and instructor

  • Brendan Gregg, author of DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

------------ J ------------

  • Kim Jones, Vice President of Global Education, Government and Health Sciences; CEO of Sun UK from 2007; CEO of Curriki

  • Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and architect of BSD Unix, vi editor

------------ K ------------

  • Vinod Khosla, Sun co-founder and Silicon Valley investor

------------ L ------------

  • Adam Leventhal, co-inventor of DTrace

  • Peter van der Linden, former manager of kernel group, author of numerous Java and C books

------------ M ------------

  • Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA

  • Clark Masters, EVP, President of SunFed

  • Craig McClanahan, creator or the Apache Struts framework and architect of Tomcat's servlet container, Catalina

  • Scott McNealy, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Sun; CEO from 1984-2006

  • Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover

  • Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 until Sun acquisition in 2008

  • Jim Mitchell, Vice President and Sun Fellow

  • Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing, founder of Debian

  • Douglas Murray, former Juniper Networks executive, and CEO of Big Switch Networks

------------ N ------------

  • Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

  • Patrick Naughton, co-creator of Java

  • Jakob Nielsen, web-design usability authority

  • Peter Norvig, Director of Research Google

------------ O ------------

  • John Ousterhout, inventor of the Tcl scripting language

------------ P ------------

  • Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and CTO

  • Radia Perlman, sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet"

  • Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer

  • Kim Polese, prominent dot-com era executive

  • Curtis Priem, co-founder of NVIDIA

------------ R ------------

  • George Reyes, former CFO of Google, Inc.

  • David S. H. Rosenthal, early X Window System developer and original designer of the ICCCM

------------ S ------------

  • Bob Scheifler, leader of X Window System development from 1984 to 1996

  • Eric Schmidt, former Sun Chief Technology Officer, chairman and former CEO of Google, Inc., and co-developer of lex

  • Jonathan I. Schwartz, former President and CEO of Sun

  • Mike Shapiro, co-inventor of DTrace

  • Bob Sproull, computer graphics pioneer

  • Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-inventor of the Scheme programming language and member of IEEE standards committees of many programming languages

  • Bert Sutherland, manager of Sun Labs, Xerox PARC, BBN Computer Science Division

  • Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer

------------ T ------------

  • Bruce Tognazzini, computer usability consultant

  • Marc Tremblay, microprocessor architect and Sun's employee with the most awarded patents

  • Bud Tribble, former VP of software development at NeXT, current VP of software technology at Apple

------------ V ------------

  • Bill Vass, President and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.

------------ W ------------

  • Michael Widenius, original author of MySQL

------------ Y ------------

  • William Yeager, software architect, inventor of the multi-protocol router.

------------ Z ------------

  • Edward Zander, former President of Sun Microsystems; former CEO of Motorola
by Anonymous
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A good list

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @Sbbu+P3pyqKh

Surely at this point in time, Scott deserves a little comment on his role in Sun's history, no?

by angryperson
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Post ID: @3zxl+P3pyqKh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIzHNUSVoAQsE07.jpg:large

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @2cyj+P3pyqKh

@eng - your randomly assigned handle is proper indeed - a brilliant addition

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @2hac+P3pyqKh

This post is in poor taste.

It takes a team to design a CPU, a system, and an OS. We were all part of the team and all valuable in one way or another.

Just because some ex-Sun employees happened to be "famous" doesn't minimize the contributions of the other members of team Sun.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1fse+P3pyqKh

Let's be specific. Dr. Radia Perlman invented the Spanning Tree Protocol. Look it up if you don't know what that is. BTW, she hates the Mother of the Internet moniker. I don't blame her. Connotes that she baked cookies or some sh-- like that. Like Dr. Brown's flux capacitor that makes time travel possible, STP makes the Internet possible.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1vzs+P3pyqKh

You missed Adrian C ockcroft

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @hmi+P3pyqKh

I'll start one for Oracle

-------- E ----------

  • Larry Ellison, once visionary co-founder and CEO of Oracle who lost vision and relinquished control of this once great company to a pair of imbeciles.

------- H -----------

  • Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle. A philanderer and destroyer of once great companies while enriching himself.

...wip..

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @eng+P3pyqKh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sun_Microsystems_employees

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @lpw+P3pyqKh

I always appreciate somone who can copy from Wikipedia without leaving in the citation links.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @igu+P3pyqKh

What about me? Where am I? I once wrote a script to detach a mirror using Solstice Disk Suite

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @pdd+P3pyqKh

@P3pyqKh-riu

Worst blind item ever.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @oiy+P3pyqKh

This list is amazing

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @rqt+P3pyqKh

Now I'm curious about who u talk about

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @oty+P3pyqKh

That list is missing at least one famous person, although I won't mention their name here since I know they dropped Sun from their bio long ago, so I'm guessing it's their wish to not be associated with Sun. I don't think there's a single source online, linkedin included, that shows that this person was once at Sun. It's always made me wonder, though, what drove this very successful person to scrub Sun so thoroughly from history...

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @riu+P3pyqKh

What about Kohsuke Kawaguchi? Hudson/Jenkins is an essential tool in the DevOps toolbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohsuke_Kawaguchi

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @zzl+P3pyqKh

thanks for those great info

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @cdl+P3pyqKh

When Monty sold the family silver of MySQL to Sun for $1b and became an employee as part of the acquisition. He is a sellout although he pretends it doesn't happen.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @hou+P3pyqKh

I had no clue that Widenius used to work for Sun... I guess I learned something today. That's cool...

by Anonymous
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