Connected to my earlier post Significant new blog: Jonathan Schwartz's is a new post from Danese on What's missing from Sun blogs (or, is Executive Blogging enough)? which looks seriously at taking the Sun blogging from "one-to-many communication" to "conversation".
In fact I can see this happening already. Take my post: 42: Microsoft losing the API war, in it I referred to some posts on the sunray (Josh Simons and John Clingan). what is cool is that I got a helpful comment back from John (guess who is just being added to my blogroll - although clearly I need to re-organise it again).
To my mind this is exactly what this new policy is allowing/encouraging and the blog technology is supporting. It did get me thinking in new directions, maybe we should look at Solaris on a server and some Sunrays. I have often wanted to be able to move towards thin clients, unfortunately we don't have a lot of desktops that I could replace this way as they tend to have issues like large format (A0) scanners attached. Plus until our clients go this way it is better to use the same environment as we support them in.
Anyway for me this is all good. You can definately count me as one who feels a lot more positive about Sun than before, and as developer with a significant ongoing commitment to java that goes back to January 98 I am very happy about that.
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