The Debian Linux founder Mr. Ian Murdock is now the Chief Operating Platforms Officer of Sun Microsystems. He is also the chair of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), the Linux platform interoperability standard.
Prior to joining Sun, he was Chief Technology Officer of the Linux Foundation (formed through the merger of OSDL and the Free Standards Group, where he was CTO).
As per Ian Murdock: “I’m joining Sun to head up operating system platform strategy. I’m not saying much about what I’ll be doing yet, but you can probably guess from my background and earlier writings that I’ll be advocating that Solaris needs to close the usability gap with Linux to be competitive; that while as I believe Solaris needs to change in some ways, I also believe deeply in the importance of backward compatibility; and that even with Solaris front and center, I’m pretty strongly of the opinion that Linux needs to play a clearer role in the platform strategy.”
source: Ian Murdock’s Weblog
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