Re: [cobalt-users] Sun Fire V100/V120

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Anyone know ... who is in charge of the Cobalt/ Development
> stuff anyway? Maybe the former CEO/Cobalt top guy that stills w/Sun
> could help? forgot his name, but he stills around and spearheaded
> some project for Sun just this past Spring.

Sorry, _all_ the top (executive) people from Cobalt have gone on to 
better things... Steven DeWitt left almost a year ago, and Vivek 
Mehra just left in July or August.

Most of the original engineering team is still in place (I think), but 
they're now focused 'exclusively' on Sun Linux and the LX50 and Mad 
Hatter projects...  They're all under Neil Knox (long-time Sun 
person).

There have been discussions within Sun about 'open sourcing' the UI. A 
main problem is that they don't have immediate plans to discontinue 
the Control Station product, and it is Sausalito-based (same as 550 
and Qube 3).  We _might_ have some success with the RaQ 4 stuff, but 
they would insist on removing or otherwise altering the Sun ONE ASP 
stuff, as well as the patented bandwidth management kernel module and 
the LCD stuff.  I'll make some more inquiries with the (few) people I 
know that are left there.  But I'm not hopeful at all...

I'd like it if they took a StarOffice/OpenOffice approach to the 
project...

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Bruce Timberlake

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