GOOD LUCK TO YOU! Filip
~ Namaste - I bow to the divine in you ~ Filip Hanik Software Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.filip.net >-----Original Message----- >From: Pier Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:23 PM >To: Pier Fumagalli >Subject: And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening >andgood bye... > > >One year, three months and five days. It definitely didn't last >long, or not >as long as I would have expected, or as long as I would have liked >it. What? >Oh, I believe you noticed it already: effective today I'm no longer a Sun >Microsystems employee... > >Well folks, it has been a long and wild ride (quoting a friend of mine who >was in more or less the same position as I am right now some months ago), >but as all rides, you pay your toll, you get some fun, and then, >the ride is >over... I believe you all heard about that Sun Microsystems was having its >first roll of layoffs ever, and from what I was told, my situation (working >in London, employed in Dublin, and with my team in Santa Clara) was in a >very dangerous position. And when managers had to come off with a name for >my team, well, my name was an easy pick :) > >No hard feelings though. I still think that Sun is a great place >to work at, >most of my heroes are all still there (sigh!) from James Gosling to Joshua >Bloch (some others have gone) and a bunch of friends are still working >there. It's a good company, overall, maybe sometimes it takes them >some time >to understand how open source works (not that I know much about it), but >most of the times, at the end, they get it right... And I mean, who never >made a mistake or two in their lives? > >I just think that the projects I was dealing with (native and web-server >integration with Tomcat) were not enough to justify my "displaced" >situation >(it's somehow weird when you have to attend to a phone meeting at 11 PM! :) >but I was prepared, I smelled it from quite some time, and I got my >confirmation today. > >What does it mean for me? Well, somehow, it means a lot. It means that all >you folks who were waiting for my return in California will have >to wait for >quite some time now, more than the planned six months, I don't have the >strength at the moment to chase another visa, to start it all over again. >I'll settle down here in London (it's a nice town when it doesn't rain), I >have a good number of friends, clubs are nice, and my cats are getting used >to the upcoming cold winter. But no more of sunny California for quite a >long time, no more rides on my brand new Suzuki GSX-1300R on Highway 1, no >more skiing in Tahoe, no more cheap ADSL and large bandwidth access. Oh, >well, I'll survive. > >What does that mean in terms of my involvement with the Apache Software >Foundation, the Jakarta Project, Tomcat, and so on? Nothing. Nothing >changes, I've been around here for a reasonable amount of years now, and I >am planning to stick around for a lot more to come. The only thing changing >is that I got back my independence, I got back my status of "open source >developer" for real, and if someone asks me that one of the projects I'm >working on doesn't run on my "favorite" platform (Windows), I can just say, >go ahead, fix it yourself, I don't care. > >How I see it? I traded my independence as an open source developer with my >dream of living in a place I love, I traded my salary for a lump of more >freedom. The only thing I somehow regret, is that this time I didn't have >the power of choice, but I accept it, and frankly, I'm not sad about what >happened... > >So, from now on, Pier is me. It means that what I think, what I say or what >I do is because of some strange plot at Sun. My wickedness is only >mine, and >it's going to be like that for quite some time (get ready :)... > >And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good bye... > > Pier (and his two independent cats: Sharon and Becky) > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
