First days as a Sun Microsystems employee
As of July 1 all Canadian MySQLers are employees of Sun Microsystems. I was expecting that we would be the rear guard, I was going to greet the great day singing “a broken man on an Edmonton pier / the last of Monty’s engineers” (with thanks to the writer of “Barrett’s privateers”), or perhaps “And I, the last, go forth companionless … Among new men, strange faces, other minds.” (with thanks to Mr Tennyson). But as things turned out, the Ukrainians and the French were delayed. So Trudy Pelzer and I were the last Canadian engineers to come on board, but not quite last of all.
And it’s been wonderful. A free lunch, a tour of Sun’s Edmonton office, a SafeWord security doohickey, a carrying case, and an alternative address = peter.gulutzan@sun.com. More seriously, I’ve gained several thousand new co-workers while keeping the old ones (almost none of the MySQL engineers didn’t join Sun, and I know of none that intend to leave now that they’ve joined Sun). This is one of those friendly acquisitions where everything has just worked, and my hat is off to the integration teams who’ve kept us all in a high-morale gung-ho cloud. The new company is an even better friend of open source than the old, the number of intelligent people I’ve encountered is even greater, and the European level of politeness — always one of MySQL AB’s best points — hasn’t been polluted at all, touch wood. I highly recommend a Sun job for connoisseurs of tasteful engineering positions.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:19 am
My compulsive listening to Stan Rogers since the first has me in a right mood these days. Nicely done.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
On-boarded on Canada Day for Canadians … how thoughtful
July 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Very, very good blog!