Larry Singer, the senior vice president and
strategic insight officer who joined Sun in 2003, is leaving
the company, sources familiar with the situation said. And
Stuart Wells, the executive vice president for utility
computing who joined in 1988, is losing his position leading
the Sun Grid project, though it's not yet clear whether he's
leaving Sun altogether, sources said.
Sun is revamping Sun Grid, which has attracted more hype
than paying customers. Sun is moving the grid away from its
current incarnation as a stand-alone service, the sources
said. Instead, it's becoming a facet of the operations of
existing hardware and software business units.
The hardware and software groups will have responsibility
for bringing Sun Grid to market, and the long-term hope is
the move will make it easier for customers to seamlessly
link to it, the sources said.
Sun declined to comment for this story.
The changes aren't the first since Jonathan Schwartz took
over as chief executive in April. Schwartz named David Yen
head of storage and John Fowler head of all server products
in May. And shortly before that, when Schwartz still was
president and chief operating officer, Sun promoted Don
Grantham to lead a merged sales and services group.
At least one high-level Sun Microsystems executive is
departing after a shake-up that also is affecting Sun Grid,
a service to let customers pay by the hour to use its
computers.
Larry Singer, the senior vice president and strategic
insight officer who joined Sun in 2003, is leaving the
company, sources familiar with the situation said. And
Stuart Wells, the executive vice president for utility
computing who joined in 1988, is losing his position leading
the Sun Grid project, though it's not yet clear whether he's
leaving Sun altogether, sources said.
Sun is revamping Sun Grid, which has attracted more hype
than paying customers. Sun is moving the grid away from its
current incarnation as a stand-alone service, the sources
said. Instead, it's becoming a facet of the operations of
existing hardware and software business units.
The hardware and software groups will have responsibility
for bringing Sun Grid to market, and the long-term hope is
the move will make it easier for customers to seamlessly
link to it, the sources said.
Sun declined to comment for this story.
The changes aren't the first since Jonathan Schwartz took
over as chief executive in April. Schwartz named David Yen
head of storage and John Fowler head of all server products
in May. And shortly before that, when Schwartz still was
president and chief operating officer, Sun promoted Don
Grantham to lead a merged sales and services group.
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