Open Source Advocates Alarmed By Mickos's Sun Exit

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 8, 2009 3:17 AM EDT
InformationWeek; By Charles Babcock
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Marten Mickos on Friday told fellow employees that he's resigning from Sun Microsystems, just a few days short of his first anniversary as senior VP of database software. The news was greeted with dismay by those who thought he was going to play a key role in guiding Sun through its transition to an open source company. "There's a question whether Sun can make money as an open source company. I would take someone who's been highly successful in an area that Sun has been struggling with and give him free rein," said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource and head developer on the open source Spring Java framework project, in an interview.

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