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I think this was the last event I worked for Sun/Oracle, in early November 2010 – I resigned right after Thanksgiving later that month. Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro gave a birds-of-a-feather session, the only video that survives from that event (though I had filmed an entire day of Solaris-related talks). You might also like: Oracle… Continue reading LISA 10

I worked at this event even though I was very, very ill and should have been on medical leave. A lot of the gallery below is me trying to get the perfect shot of two of my favorite men in tech, Brendan Gregg and Rick Ramsey. You might also like: Metrics Workshop at LISA13

Sun’s Menlo Park headquarters had been emptying out for some time, and I spent a lot of that summer rounding up and giving away old Sun swag. We had a party with some of it. You might also like: Open Storage Summit, 2008 Sun Broomfield, August 2007 Open Source Grid & Cluster Summit, 2008

The final edition of Sun Tech Days was held in Hyderabad in March, 2010 – after that, all events were Oracle-branded. This was my last big trip for Sun, and of course I jumped at any opportunity to go to India. I was amused to catch the above billboard on my way in from the airport.… Continue reading The last Sun Tech Days, 2010