Simon Phipps

Tech­no­logy futur­ist Simon Phipps is a well-known com­puter industry insider and com­ment­ator and as well as hav­ing a widely-read web­log he speaks fre­quently at industry events on tech­no­logy trends and futures. At vari­ous times he has pro­grammed main­frames, Win­dows and on the Web. Cur­rently the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsys­tems, Inc., he was pre­vi­ously involved in OSI stand­ards in the 80s, in the earli­est com­mer­cial col­lab­or­at­ive con­fer­en­cing soft­ware in the early 90s, in intro­du­cing Java and XML to IBM and most recently with Sun’s launch­ing Sun’s blog­ging site, blogs.sun.com. He lives in the UK, is based at Sun’s Menlo Park cam­pus in Cali­for­nia and can be con­tac­ted via http://www.webmink.net. The longer ver­sion of his bio is at http://www.webmink.net/speaker.htm.

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