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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?
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...
It's About More Than Just the PlumbingThe Real Issues That Need to Be SolvedAre the Nontechnical Ones
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.
A Snapshot of the Future
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
Meaning, Not Markup
This article explores the paradox that sharing a common vocabulary can actually restrict the richness and nuances of a business paradigm.
Parallel Worlds
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...
More "Doubletalk" from Microsoft, Claims Simon PhippsA corrective to all the hype about C#
(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...