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I’ve been meaning for a long time to make a video tribute to the amazing people of Sun Microsystems. It has been my honor and privilege to work with some of the finest minds in this industry (or any industry), many of whom I also got to film at Sun conferences and other events worldwide.

While it’s breaking my heart to witness the diaspora of Sun talent, I take comfort in knowing that, in new companies with new projects, these folks will cause a thousand new technologies to bloom. I look forward to seeing what everyone gets up to – including those who remain at Oracle – and hope you’ll all stay in touch and keep me posted. Though a situation like Sun may be unique and unrepeatable, I expect I’ll work with you again someday.

Most of the footage shown here I shot myself over three years, in varying conditions and with varying equipment. A few of these clips are someone else’s footage that I post-produced or edited. A few of the more engaging clips were created by the teams participating in the Go Game during the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit held in 2008. Those aren’t my work, but – if you’ve got footage of David Korn dancing, you use it! (No, he was not a Sun employee; there are a few other “friends of” in here as well.)

The photos are mostly mine. I chose the song primarily for its bouncy and variable tempo, so if you find yourself juxtaposed with an unflattering lyric, don’t take it personally – it wasn’t intentional. Apologies to the many who were left out – I have too much material for one three-minute song! If you’re neither in the video nor in the Missing list below, let me know in the comments and I’ll add you.

Dec 28, 2010 – Have started updating the lists below with “where are they now” information – feel free to add comments if you know something I don’t! (And can add people who aren’t on these lists.)

Starring

in order of appearance

(Bruno Souza) at OSCON 2009 – Brazilian government?
Dominic Kay at SNIA SNW 2008 – Oracle
Tim Thomas at Sun’s London office, Jan 2009 – ?
Valerie Bubb Fenwick at OSCON 2009- Oracle
Cindy Swearingen at Sun’s Broomfield campus, Jan 2010- Oracle
John Sonnenschein, Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit, Santa Cruz, 2008 – Joyent
John Fowler at SC08, Austin- Oracle
Andy Bechtolsheim at SC08, Austin – Arista
Rick Ramsey & Darren Moffat at OOW10 – Oracle
Rossella Laeng & April Hall at SC08, Austin – n/a
Jeff Jackson celebrating Mardi Gras at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2009 – ?
Josh Simons at SC08, Austin – ?
Sara Dornsife at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008 – PayPal
Sunay Tripathi at the Security Summit at LISA09 – ?
Roch Bourbonnais at Sun’s San Francisco office, March 2010- Oracle
George Wilson in San Francisco, July 2010 – Delphix
Constantin Gonzalez at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2009- Oracle
Niall Power at Sun’s Dublin office, Jan 2009
Dan Templeton, Miha Ahronovitz, Gregory Shirin at SC08, Austin- Oracle
Mike Shapiro & Steve O’Grady in San Francisco, Sept 2008 – ?, still at RedMonk
Rich Breuckner SC09 – InsideHPC (owner)
Mark Cruciani & Margaret Hamburger in Sun’s Eagan office – ?, Oracle
Drew Wilson & Sherry Menne celebrating Mardi Gras at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2009 – Oracle
Diana Wadding, Tina Hartshorn, Wendy Ames at the Open Storage Summit 2009 – Oracle
? & Jerry Jelinek at CommunityOne 2009 – Jerry’s at Joyent
Margaret Hamburger & Matthew Baier in Broomfield – Oracle
Brendan Gregg at Fishworks 2010 – Joyent
Luiz InÃ¡cio Lula da Silva, Rafael Vanoni, Vitorio Sassi at FISL, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2009 – President of Brazil, ?, ?
Jeff Bonwick, Bryan Cantrill playing the marker game at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – mystery startup, Joyent
Roma Baron at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – Oracle
Bryan Cantrill at LISA09 – Joyent
Sumit Gupta at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2007 – ?
Lori Alt at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2008 – Oracle
Jeff Cheeney, Reed, ? at SNW 2008 – ?
Adam Leventhal at the Open Storage Summit 2009 – Delphix
Dave Miner at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10 – Oracle
Peter Bojanic at the HPC Consortium 2008 – ?
Dale Layfield at SC09
Larry McIntosh at SC09
Terri Wischmann at the Open Storage Summit 2008 – Oracle
Chris Horne at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2007
Dan Roberts at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – dev tools company
Chris Armes at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – Oracle
Bill Nesheim at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2010 – Oracle
Bill Pijewski, Mike Harsch at Sun’s Broomfield campus, 2010 – Joyent
Thorsten Freauf at Sun’s Menlo Park campus, 2008 – Oracle
Mayuresh Nirhali at Tech Days, Hyderabad, 2010; Paul Needle at Sun’s London office, 2009 – Oracle
Prasad Pai at the HPC Consortium 2008 – Oracle
Cristiano Basso & Brian Leonard at FISL 2009 – ?, Oracle
Lynn Rohrer, Simon Phipps, fan at FISL 2009 – Oracle, Forgerock
FISL attendees 2009
Arun Gupta, Eduardo Lima, Mauricio Leal at FISL 2009 – Oracle, ?, ?
Alan DuBoff et al Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008 – ?
Dan Maslowski & Scott Tracy at CommunityOne 2009- Oracle
Scott Rotondo at OSCON 2009- Oracle
Dennis Maher at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
Ashu Tripathi at the Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference 2008- Oracle
Bruno Souza & Jack Adams at OSCON 2009
Juergen Schleich at home 2009
Simon Phipps, Charlie Boyle, Angel Camacho in Porto Alegre, Brazil 2009 – Forgerock, Oracle, EMC
Java fans with Roger Brinkley at FISL 2009
Teresa Giacomini at FISL 2009- Oracle
Tim Bray & Bryan Cantrill at OOW09 – Google, Joyent
Durjoy Mazumdar at OOW09- Oracle
Joost Pronk at OOW10- Oracle
Darren Moffat at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
Liane Praza, Dave Miner, Bart Smaalders, Dan Price, Dan Roberts at LISA10- Oracle, except for Dan R.
Markus Flierl at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
Liane Praza at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
Glenn Faden at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
Nicolas Droux at the Solaris Summmit at LISA10- Oracle
Ellard Roush at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
Art Licht at the Open Road to Storage, Broomfield, 2009- Oracle
Alex Barclay at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Sept 2009
Meenakshi Kaul-Basu at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2008- Oracle
Gia-Khanh Nguyen at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2008- Oracle
Graham Scattergood at Sun’s London office 2009
Jim Mauro (stunt) & Dan Price at LISA10- Oracle
Jack Adams & Nick Solter at OSCON 2009 – ?, Context Optional
Diana Wadding at Sun’s Broomfield campus 2009- Oracle
OSUG Leaders, Tim Marsland at CommunityOne 2009 – ?
Kelly Nishimura & Bill Franklin at CommunityOne 2009 – ?, ?
Joy Marshall, Frank Lindquist, Lynn Rohrer at CommunityOne 2009- Oracle, ?, Oracle
Bruno Souza & Aaron Newcomb at FISL 2009 – ?, Oracle
David Gwynne & Garrett D’Amore at the Kernel Conference Australia 2009 – ?, Nexenta
Kris Hake at CommunityOne 2009
Lynn Rohrer at FISL 2009- Oracle
Christoph Schuba at the Security Summit at LISA09- Oracle
Drew Wilson at LISA08- Oracle
Fritz Ferstl at the Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference 2008
Jeff Bonwick & Bill Moore at SNIA 2008, maybe – mystery startup (both of them)
? & David Korn Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008
Ben Rockwood & Deirdré Straughan at LISA09 – Joyent
Kuldip Oberoi & Don Kretsch at Sun’s Menlo Park campus 2010- Oracle
Jim Mauro at Sun’s San Francisco office 2010- Oracle
Brendan Gregg at Fishworks 2010 – Joyent
Jeff Cheeney, Jim Grisanzio, Michelle Luna, Chris Baker Go Game at the Open Solaris Developers’ Summit 2008 – ?, Oracle, Oracle, Oracle
Harriet Coverston at the SAM-QFS BoF at SC09 – ?
Brendan Gregg at Sun’s Broomfield campus, FROSUG Oct 2009 – “Who turned out the lights?”

Missing

People I have actually filmed but could not lay hands on the footage, or there just wasn’t room for it (this list is destined to grow). Some of these videos ~~are~~ were for a time available on blogs.sun.com/video, others were lost in the move to Oracle (not by me!). A lot of the video I shot for Sun/Oracle (and more) is on my YouTube channel.