What's happened at Sun since Scott McNealy moved upstairs to the chairman's suite? Successor Jonathan Schwartz has presided over the open sourcing of
the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Java language and the SPARC processors, Marguerite Reardon reports in CNET News.com. Not incidentally, Reardon notes, Sun has returned to profitability. She interviews McNealy on the transition.
Sun engineers Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore shared their insights into the dynamics of file systems in an interview with ACM Queue, covering such aspects of the subject as data integrity, scalability and administration. Bonwick is Sun's CTO for storage. With co-lead Moore, a Sun Distinguished Engineer, he was instrumental in the development of ZFS. Pawel Jakub Dawidek, a FreeBSD developer, also contributes to the discussion, which was moderated by David Brown of Sun's Solaris engineering group.
Heinz Kabutz, a widely recognized Java programmer, answered Janice J. Heiss's first interview question on "good code" authoritatively, saying, "Don't read too much into microbenchmarks. Performance advantages come from good design and an appropriate architecture."
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