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Although a lot's changed in the past 40 years in Silicon Valley, the place that nurtured Bob Metcalfe and Dave Boggs, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak continues to attract the curious, the ingenious, and the passionate. Count among that number Tim Marsland, chief technology officer and Sun fellow for Sun Microsystems. In this podcast interview, Tim describes what led him from academic life in the venerable halls of the University of Cambridge, to life in the hard-charging, entrepreneurial Valley. He also discusses the evolution of thought that led Sun to make its Solaris 10 OS free and open source, how the CTO must appreciate both the beauty of creative technologies and their market potential, and what he sees on the horizon for the tech industry.

If you have 30 minutes to spend listening to really thoughtful and intelligent commentary, don't miss this podcast interview with Sun Micro's Tim Marsland. Robert Metcalfe once said, "Silicon Valley is the only place on Earth not trying to figure out how to become Silicon Valley." And this interview will help you to understand why.

Resources

A Conversation with Tim Marsland

OS Technology: Tim Marsland's Weblog

Bio

Dr. Tim Marsland is Software CTO, VP, and Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems. In his 16-year career at Sun, he has contributed to every Solaris release, working on many different areas of the Solaris operating environment, from strategic direction, systems architecture, release models to Solaris implementation, diagnosing, and fixing bugs.

During Solaris 10, Tim designed the Solaris Express release model, contributed to the early design work on Zones, aided with the revival of Solaris x86 platforms, and served as architect and an implementer for 64-bit Solaris on x86.

Production Credits

Dana Farver, Executive Producer, Communities Editor-in-Chief
Tom Parish, Audio Producer, Show Host
Kimberly Stone, Web Development Manager
Scott Ebner, Web Developer