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Sun sheds light on its open-source future
News Sun UK's chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, has a high-profile role to play as the company aims to complete its move to 100 percent open software development. Echoing the words of James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language...
[April 29, 2008, 13:16]
Sun exec rallies behind GPLv3
News Using his company's blog, Simon Phipps said that existing work towards GPLv3 had been "extraordinary and effective" and he said he is "frankly amazed by the criticisms". Phipps' comments are surprising given that when Sun decided to release Java...
[December 5, 2006, 16:46]
Sun sets up open source office
News Simon Phipps, already Sun's open source officer, will lead the Open Source Office and report to Hal Stern, software chief technology officer. In an interview Thursday, Phipps said the move formalizes a role he's had in coordinating Sun's open...
[August 19, 2005, 11:15]
Sun: Open source Java won't change anything for developers
News Simon Phipps, speaking at a breakfast briefing in London on Tuesday, told Builder UK that he's long held the belief that coders working with Java don't care whether the source code is available for their platform or not.
[August 16, 2006, 13:05]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News The server and software company is retiring its Sun Industry Standards Source Licence (SISSL), said Simon Phipps, director of Sun's Open Source Office. However, it's not been used by very many projects, and I don't think having it on Sun's list of...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Sun: Open source is about self-interest
News Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun Microsystems' chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, said that open source had been focused for too long on sharing code instead of what he called "the enrichment of the commons".
[June 28, 2006, 14:10]
Sun offers 'olive branch' to JBoss
News Sun last week offered JBoss the opportunity to license a set of testing tools to see if its software adheres to the Sun-sanctioned Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification, said Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist.
[March 21, 2003, 14:01]
Sun attacks Microsoft's 'open' efforts
News I want to make sure that when my grandchild studies history at university, that they can study source documents," said chief open source officer Simon Phipps. Phipps said that without a standard that remains stable and is widely adopted, documents...
[December 15, 2005, 8:20]
EC's open-source study wins broad support
News Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer at Sun, said the report brought "cold, hard facts" to the debate of whether open source was a feasible alternative for businesses. There is a lot to praise in this report, in particular the assertion that the...
[January 18, 2007, 16:02]
Java released under the GPL
News Phipps believes that the GPL is the best choice of licence, and should boost the take-up of Java around the world. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, told ZDNet UK that a final decision was only made a fortnight ago.
[November 13, 2006, 8:03]
Fedora takes off as Red Hat declines
News Colin Phipps, a developer at Netcraft, said that usage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been dropping off since Red Hat changed its licensing model. After Red Hat changed its licensing models some Web site administrators migrated to other...
[March 14, 2005, 17:15]
Sun: Open-sourcing Java is 'done'
News For one thing, Sun was unable to convince some unnamed third parties who had supplied technology to Java that they should release their components as open-source software, Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open-source officer, said at a panel discussion...
[May 10, 2007, 11:43]
Consortium launched to support OpenDocument
News At the end of September, Sun's Simon Phipps posted in his blog that Sun was "already working on a move that raises the bar on what it means to create a truly open standard" and had sent OASIS "a new statement" saying that the company promised...
[October 10, 2005, 17:50]
Sony dumps MS Office for StarOffice
News Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist for Sun's European office, said that recent court restrictions on Microsoft's licensing practices have also encouraged PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to experiment.
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
Networks '97: MS presence gives UK Java Forum early rumpus
News Gittins also found an unlikely ally in Simon Phipps, programme manager for IBM's Java Technology Centre in Hursley Park, Winchester. Phipps, a confessed critic of Microsoft's Java tack, said he welcomed Microsoft's presence on the panel.
[June 25, 1997, 11:39]
Five years ago: Networks '97: MS presence gives UK Java Forum early rumpus
News Gittins also found an unlikely ally in Simon Phipps, programme manager for IBM's Java Technology Centre in Hursley Park, Winchester. Phipps, a confessed critic of Microsoft's Java tack, said he welcomed Microsoft's presence on the panel.
[June 24, 2002, 7:02]
Sun: We screwed up on open source
News Sun's chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, now concedes that was a period in which Sun "screwed up". Speaking in a recent interview with ZDNet.co.uk sister site Builder AU, Phipps explained the situation in which Sun finds itself: "Open-source...
[June 24, 2008, 10:41]
Sun: Java to be 100 percent open by year's end
News Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer at Sun, said: "We released under the GPL everything we had the rights to release under the GPL, and that was last summer. That's going to be done within the next couple of months," said Phipps.
[June 23, 2008, 10:24]
Sun: Open source is about self-interest
Talkback Simon Phipps has responded to this hack job of an article with the following: Was ZD's reporter even in the same room? In fact I said and routinely say nothing of the sort.an intentionally provocative and ill-informed article by a ZDNet reporter...
[June 29, 2006, 4:12]
Sun sets out expanded Linux range
News Sun is preparing a version of its Java Enterprise System -- a bundle of Java server software products -- for delivery on Linux about the middle of the year, said Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist at Sun.
[January 21, 2004, 9:15]
