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Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, is a technology futurist and a well-known computer industry insider. At various times he has programmed mainframes, Windows and on the Web and was previously involved in OSI standards in the 80s, in the earliest commercial collaborative conferencing software in the early 90s, in introducing Java and XML to IBM, and most recently with Sun's launching Sun's blogging site, blogs.sun.com. He lives in the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California and can be contacted via http://www.webmink.net.

How Will Companies Ever Make Money Off Open-Source?

By Simon Phipps

The question 'How will Sun ever make money off giving so much source-code to open source' - as it did in 2000 with OpenOffice.org, has most recently with Project Looking Glass and is about to again with Solaris - is the wrong one, argues Sun's Simon Phipps. 'It...

Aug. 27, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 64,494 Replies: 12

It's About More Than Just the PlumbingThe Real Issues That Need to Be SolvedAre the Nontechnical Ones

By Simon Phipps

I've described elsewhere the idea of 'swarms' - spontaneously federating devices and software services connecting over networks. Some people are now describing this concept as 'wireless Web services,' extending the group of ideas now being called services-on-demand.

Jan. 11, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 11,673 Replies: 1

A Snapshot of the Future

By Simon Phipps

WBT is pleased to showcase some farseeing comments on the emerging new wireless Java world from our International Advisory Board member Simon Phipps, who filed the following article - wirelessly of course

Mar. 16, 2001 11:20 AM Reads: 10,908

Meaning, Not Markup

By Simon Phipps

This article explores the paradox that sharing a common vocabulary can actually restrict the richness and nuances of a business paradigm.

Feb. 28, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 8,811

Parallel Worlds

By Simon Phipps

In the last few years the focus in computing has gradually moved away from the raw technology to settle on the total cost of ownership (tco) for a solution. What makes up the tco? That's hard to say, and everyone has a different answer, which usually depends on what...

Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 9,518

More "Doubletalk" from Microsoft, Claims Simon PhippsA corrective to all the hype about C#

By Simon Phipps

(October 25, 2002) - I'm quoted by Gavin Clark of ComputerWire in his item (syndicated by The Register) about the standardization of Microsoft's C# programming language and their moves to make their C++ compiler catch up with the standards a little. My remarks the...

Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 8,430 Replies: 14