Debian man runs to Sun

THE LEAD developer of the Debian Linux project, Ian Murdock starts work tomorrow as the chief operating platforms officer at Sun.

According to a statement from Sun, the position is newly created, but it has left the open sauce community guessing what the maker of Solaris 10 is up too.

Murdock is a “chief operating platform officer” but the question is which platform, Solaris 10 or Linux? Sun is not saying, but word on the street is that Sun might come up with a Linux plan to work alongside its successful open source release of Solaris 10.

Writing in his bog Sun's open source strategy guy, Simon Phipps [http://blogs.sun.com/webmink], says Murdock "is responsible for building a new strategy to evolve both Sun's Solaris and Gnu/Linux strategies."

Murdock wrote the Debian Manifesto in 1993 and served as CTO of The Linux Foundation. More here. µ