By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 20 March 2007, 07:43
THE LEAD developer of the Debian Linux project, Ian Murdock starts work tomorrow as the chief operating platforms officer at Sun.
According to a statement from Sun, the position is newly created, but it has left the open sauce community guessing what the maker of Solaris 10 is up too.
Murdock is a \ufffdchief operating platform officer\ufffd but the question is which platform, Solaris 10 or Linux? Sun is not saying, but word on the street is that Sun might come up with a Linux plan to work alongside its successful open source release of Solaris 10.
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Interesting. There seems to be some sentience left in Sun after all. Many were predicting they would be circling the drain by now.
Cheers,
Scott.