I have been following Jonathan Swartz, the CEO of Sun probably since they acquired MySQL.  Now, that Oracle has purchased Sun, Jonathan has moved his blog.  Here is the new link:

http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/

Here are a couple of posts that kind of describe the change:

• Where Life Takes Me Next
• Opening Up

In catching up on my RSS feeds, I found a flurry of articles about Google switching away from Windows because of the Chinese hack.  This sounds exciting to me because it probably means that the Linux community will grow.

The articles say that Google employs more than 10,000 people.  They have a choice of going to Apple, but surely a decent number of them will choose Linux.  The other encouraging thing is that many of them are probably programmers.  So, I would hope that this would mean more contributions to the desktop features of Linux.

Articles:

• Google Operating System: Google Employees Need Permission to Use Windows
• Financial Times: Google ditches Windows on security concerns
• Engadget: Google said to be moving away from Windows internally, Mac and Linux systems on tap instead
• Engadget: Microsoft responds to Google moving away from Windows, calls it ironic
• InfoWorld: A Windows-free Google? Not yet
• InfoWorld: Microsoft counters report of Google’s dumping Windows

Possibly related?

• InfoWorld: Eclipse: Developers growing more fond of desktop Linux

I am always on the look out for lists of applications that might be useful.  This list didn’t have a whole lot that was practical for me, but it still deserved a link:

InfoWorld: 7 open source innovations on the cutting edge

Also, here is another article that caught my fancy:

InfoWorld: Open source innovation on the cutting edge