Solaris Cluster 11/09 is launched today. It is wonderful to see yet another release go out on schedule. It is nice to see business partners sending notes reading about it in Yahoo Finance and several other news sites. More details about the product can be read on Oasis.

The team has successfully done three product releases in 2009! In January SC3.2 1/09; in June OHAC 2009.06 and in Dec SC3.2 11/09.

I work with a wonderful set of people and am very proud to be part of this team and to steer it forward.

I was waiting to hear the outcome of the European Commission decision today. Will they approve proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by the software company Oracle?  It was disappointing to read this in The NY Times. The European Commission has decided to take at least three months (Jan 19) to decide the next steps.

I am hoping that the approval goes through sooner than the 3 months!

I am responsible for the Solaris Cluster product in Sun Microsystems.  I took over as the Director of the Cluster Engineering team in December 2007 and  started the planning of this release at that time. I am very happy that we got the release done today 27th January 2009, as we had planned! We ran into our fair share of issues along the way but got done with the release on schedule. You can get more details on the products and the features here. You can also read more on Oasis.

The Cluster Team is fantastic! The team has some of …