Sun and Drupal
Sun Microsystems has been active in the Drupal community and recently gave a presentation at DrupalCon Barcelona as well as helped sponsor Drupal events. Recently, Sun also made a second hardware donation to the Drupal Association: a SunFire X4200 to support the Drupal.org infrastructure. The first hardware donation was a Sun Fire V20z back in 2005.
On a related note, I successfully defended my PhD at the internal examination yesterday. This means that I am accepted to defend my PhD in public in January 2008. James Gosling, the inventor of Java and Vice President at Sun Microsystems, was part of my PhD examination committee. In the car to Ghent, we talked about Open Source, Java and Drupal. James knew about Drupal, the OpenOffice extensions site, etc.
I personally thanked James on behalf of the Drupal community for Sun's continued support. Thanks Sun!
James Gosling, the inventor of Java and Vice President at Sun Microsystems. © Sun Microsystems.
Good job, Dries! I'm sure you'll do equally well next month.
December 14, 2007 - 13:47Congratulations Dries and good luck next year!
December 14, 2007 - 15:05Way to go, Dries! Congratulations.
Sun technologies are on my "way cool, wish I had more time to explore them" list.
December 14, 2007 - 15:17So, will James Gosling be helping with the Java port of Drupal? (Sorry, couldn't resist ...)
P.S. For those who don't know, Gosling, the father of Java, is a stealth Canadian (those who live in the USA and their love for maple syrup is not known) ...
December 14, 2007 - 17:58Congratulations, Dries! Good luck with the public defense, as well as Acquia!
December 15, 2007 - 15:04Good work. You truly live up to the term 'doer'!
December 17, 2007 - 10:35Nice picture. Yes, I know, the post is not about pictures. But still, mr. Gosling must be pleased.
December 19, 2007 - 10:23Hey Dries, did you ask him about his origin? You know "Gosling" isn't that far of "Gosselin", you could be far relatives ;-)
December 21, 2007 - 09:42Hey boy you have high profile people on your examination committee!
December 22, 2007 - 19:38I wish success for you on your public defense.
Good job, Dries! I'm sure you'll do equally well next month.
February 7, 2008 - 14:14Nice picture. Yes, I know, the post is not about pictures. But still, mr. Gosling must be pleased.
February 14, 2008 - 23:21So, how did your defense of your PhD go? Did you get to talk about Drupal in it as well?
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