Mark Herring for CEO
It is time, the necessary conditions are present, with the destruction of the financial system, bold moves are warranted, and that means the Board of Sun Microsystems needs to call a private meeting, outside of the scope of the current CEO, to discuss a transition plan, and i would like to be the first to publicly nominate Mark Herring for the to-be-available position of Sun CEO...Mark, I apologize if this public statement is undesired and makes your life more difficult, but these are dire times, and you owe Jonathan nothing...Following the debacle at the end of 2002 or the beginning of 2003, when he signed-off on the disgraceful removal of your responsibilities to run the Java Web Wervices product team, to be replaced, by the wholly incompetent Joe Keller, who i have no concern what he thinks of me, as he signed-off on my demise (pay-back is a b*tch, Joe)...I remember when the re-org was coming in the summer of '02, and there was a buzz about Mark and Jonathan being close friends (something about BBQ's), or at least colleagues that relied on the advice of each other...i actually listened because i thought Mark was pretty cool, his diatribe that he sent out when he took over following the re-org was cogent and impressive...
I was motivated, and still believe that i was the only one doing any work on the application server in Mark's group during that year, as my colleagues check-ed out, as i have discussed already...in a flash, Mark was gone and i left some months later, and in deep hibernation Sun software went due to the complete disgrace that was Orion (apologies, Kampmeier), only to be resurrected with the release of Glassfish some years later...it is time to put wood behind the Glassfish arrow and promote someone who actually understands middleware, and the way forward for Sun...that person is Mark Herring...
I honestly thought he had left the company, but have seen him in press releases throughout the year, and i know it would be a tough sell to the Board, as they would be taking a huge flier on a middle manager, but honestly not as big a flier as when you replace the demi-god, Scott McNealy, with a complete neo-phyte in Jonatahn "PTB" Schwartz...Mark is the kind of person that would shake the conventional wisdom of openSolaris that has spread like a cancer within the company, and while you are at, get rid of Anil Gadre, John Fowler, and Rich Green, and promote some talent, not yes-men who are too scared (or too dumb) to come up with an idea that falls outside of Jonthan...
I am free, i can continue as long as it takes, Mark Herring is the kind of guy who works hard and knows the industry, and someone who employees would rally behind, and change the trajectory of this company...it is time for hard decisions, there is very little time left, i am simply calling on the Board to ask Jonathan to explain what his plan is to turn things around, and then realize he has none...
Glassfish and MySQL are the future for hardware sales, not openSolaris...Mark Herring understands this, Jonathan does not, its as simple as that...the announcements this week around openSolaris, Oracle, and Fujitsu only demonstrates that this is the case...Red Hat will do a deal for $100/yr.: do it...get going, i will not stop until someone gets tough over there, and demonstrates that there is something other than fear that runs the company...Jonathan Schwartz is done, whether you can bring yourself to admit it or not, he has failed on a truly epic scale...bring in someone who can save this company, maybe Mark could use Scott in an advisory role, whatever it takes,
just get it done...
posted by douglas dooley @ 6:26 PM
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hey apologies to Pratik, Robert, and Deepak,
i know you guys were working during the time i mentioned, it was not just me, and there is no way we could have kept the application server program going without you guys as product managers,
didn't mean to overlook ya....
but all you other posers who have AS7 on your resume are a disgrace, none of you did anything but actively sabotage what we were trying to do after Bauhaus took over the division...
truth needs to come out, and even though you are well represented within Sun, Oracle, and Red Hat, among other locations, you did not earn it:
i earned it for you...(engineering ranks, excluded)
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