Computer scientist and web and open source advocate
Simon Phipps at the Wikimedia Foundation office in April 2018 Simon Phipps is acomputer scientist andweb andopen source advocate.
Phipps was instrumental inIBM 's involvement in theJava programming language , founding IBM's Java Technology Center.[ 1] Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme fromDanese Cooper .[ 2] Solaris andJava .[ 3]
Phipps was not hired intoOracle as part of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems and his final day was March 8, 2010 when the two entities combined. Following Sun, he spent a year asChief Strategy Officer of identity startupForgeRock [ 4] Wipro Technologies as director of their open source advisory practice.[ 5]
Phipps was President of theOpen Source Initiative [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Open Rights Group [ 10] The Document Foundation [ 11] Open Source for America .[ 12] MariaDB Foundation ,[ 13] [ 14] [ 15] GNOME Foundation ,[ 16] OpenSolaris ,[ 17] OpenJDK ,[ 18] OpenSPARC [ 19] AlmaLinux OS Foundation .[ 20]
He has appeared as a guest and occasional co-host on episodes of theFLOSS Weekly podcast.[ 21]
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