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Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate. Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center.〔Ibm Java Evangelist Speaks Of Java Tsunami http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_n3418/ai_20635325/〕 He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper.〔Sun exec takes control of open source projects http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/sun-exec-takes-control-open-source-projects-428〕 Under Phipps, most of Sun's core software was released under open source licenses, including Solaris and Java.〔The ripple effect of a GPL'd Java will reach far and wide http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3937〕 Phipps was not hired into Oracle 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 as Chief Strategy Officer of identity startup ForgeRock〔http://web.archive.org/web/20131208021808/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Simon-Phipps-joins-open-identity-startup-ForgeRock-996390.html〕 before becoming an independent consultant. In 2015 he joined Wipro Technologies as director of their open source advisory practice. Phipps was President of the Open Source Initiative〔OSI Board of Directors http://www.opensource.org/docs/board-annotated〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://opensource.org/node/662 )〕 until 2015 when he stepped down in preparation for the end of his Board term in 2016. He is currently a board member of the Open Rights Group〔Open Rights Group Board of Directors http://www.openrightsgroup.org/people/board#simon_phipps〕 and on the advisory board of Open Source for America.〔Open Source for America Board of Advisors http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/board〕 He has served on a number of advisory boards for other projects, including as CEO of the MariaDB Foundation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Simon Phipps )〕 the GNOME Foundation,〔About the GNOME Foundation http://foundation.gnome.org/about/〕 OpenSolaris,〔Board Election 2009/Change Constitution http://poll.opensolaris.org/4/〕 OpenJDK,〔OpenJDK Governance Board http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/〕 and OpenSPARC.〔OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board http://www.opensparc.net/community/governance.html〕 He appeared as a guest on episodes (39 ) , (113 ) and (337 ) of FLOSS Weekly and as a regular co-host, such as on episodes (124 ) and (201 ). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon Phipps (programmer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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