A sad day

Today marked the end of an era: this filing is the official notification that The Merger (it’s really a takeover) has officially completed, at least in the USA.I wanted to work for Sun since I was 14 – I read an article in Byte about the Sun 3/80 (reviewed with the i386 coprocessor card) and knew at that moment that Sun was the company I wanted to work for.It wasn’t until 1999 that I got the opportunity to start living my dream, and now I have a bunch of fantastic friends all over the world, have worked and continue to work with some of the smartest minds on the planet.I hope that the shakeout happens very quickly, and that I’m still around in the new world to keep doing what I love with people who I respect, admire and have learnt a heckuvalot from. Articles like this one give me cause for optimism, as do the full page ads that ORCL placed in the WSJ last year saying that they intend to spend more money on SPARC, on Solaris than Sun ever did.Guess we’ll just have to wait and see what The Webcast later today brings.