Startup Camp 5 kicked off today in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. An impressive roster of attendees indicates that this conference has really gained some traction and generated interest since the first Startup Camp was held in November of 2006.
These unconferences offer enormous amounts of information and insights into new startups and give startups a great chance to show off to a well informed, influential audience.
Om Malik is reporting that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted in the keynote that Sun and Amazon have a major initiative planned that will be announced very soon More»

Labels: Jonathan Schwartz, San Francisco, startups, sun microsystems

The open source feeding frenzy continues. Last year it was Redhat acquiring JBoss. This year it’s Sun acquiring MySQL. This is a strong validation for the open source business model, and gives Sun a new software platform for leadership in the enterprise.
MySQL has been strong in the web database market and is just now poking its nose into the enterprise. To do this, they have teamed up with WaveMaker for companies looking to replace their client/server tools like Oracle More»

Labels: keeneview, lotus notes, mysql, oracle forms, sun microsystems, wavemaker

Corporate blogs are powerful in so many ways - changing perceptions being one of them. Sun is famous for leveraging the blogosphere for goodness with their open blogging policy which encourages all employees to participate in the blogosphere. Direct communication with customers can be used as damage control if you can show customers the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow when a product isn’t perfect or thank them for an idea on a feature they hadn’t considered. Responding More»

Labels: Blogs, Jonathan Schwarz, sun microsystems