Leaving Sun Microsystems

Miscellaneous Topics
#1

To all at JGO,

Well, the time has come for me to part ways with Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle). It has been an extraordinary journey for me at Sun and am grateful for the opportunity to pursue an industry I love and help build the community here at JGO. This does not mean my leaving JGO and will continue my participation here. As well, I am still talking to individuals at Sun to discuss the future of the site, etc.

If you want to follow what I am doing next, my new site, http://www.pastpixels.com, goes live in the 2nd week of January February.

Thanks to all for your dedication to this community and your support. It is greatly appreciated.

Onwards and upwards!

-Chris

#2

Thank you for the major effort on getting games some priority at Sun. There were probably a few close ones with deploying Java on the consoles, too bad it didn’t happen.

So what’s next? Starting your own business or will it be ‘just’ a blog?

#3

+1
I guess ‘fun in the oracle’ doesn’t sound as good as ‘fun in the sun’!

#4

I would just like to voice my appreciation for the community that you’ve built. It’s probably been the single greatest help to my game programming abilities. Thank you, and I hope everything goes well.

#5

Kalh epityxia se oti kaneis Chris!

I would be interested to know why you’re leaving actually. Does it have anything to do with Oracle’s “Java gaming” strategy (or lack thereof)? Or is it some random reason we don’t really need to know?

#6

* Orangy Tang bookmarks

Good luck with whatever that turns out to be. :wink:

#7

Shame to see you leaving. Clearly Oracle has other intentions with Java than most of us here would like to see.

Wish you well, and may your new endeavors be prosperous ones.

#8

yeah, if it werent for you going ahead of the curve and making jgo, I would probably be coding C++ and bashing my head against a wall ;).

so thx for the head trauma you saved me :wink:

GL with whatever your going to do, let us know when your site is up, cause the least we can do it look at it :slight_smile:

#9

[quote]Shame to see you leaving. Clearly Oracle has other intentions with Java than most of us here would like to see.

Wish you well, and may your new endeavors be prosperous ones.
[/quote]
This express exactly what I want to say to you Chris.

#10

Efxaristo, Spasi. And kalimera! I’ll be able to explain more when PastPixels goes live. More to come, for sure!

And thanks all, I appreciate it :slight_smile:

#11

Another thanks for making JGO exist. It’s been a fun ride. Do let us know (if you can) a little bit beforehand if Oracle decides to jettison JGO - it would be nice to have some time to try to move the community elsewhere.

#12

Thanks for setting up a great community, and best wishes for the future! 8)

#13

Aww. I suspect this changes little :wink:

Cas :slight_smile:

#14

pastpixels ? pixels from the past ? hold game ? history ? cant wait to learn more !

good luck

#15

past pixels: 2D / retro gaming? :slight_smile:

#16

Thanks for hosting the community. All the best with your new endeavour.

#17

well good luck with the future.

btw what happens with JGO now?
who do we complain and bug if the server goes down? :slight_smile:
any backup plan if Oracle decides, JGO is no longer need?

bit concerned about the future of JGO, now that your leaving.

JGO is my favorite forums and best best java gaming community. Again thx for all the great effort in making it what it is.

edit. also noticed the domain expires at the start of 2012, Oracle have any plans to renew it?

#18

Thank you, Chris, for everything! Good luck.
* Markus_Persson tips hat

(I actually wear a hat these days!)

#19

We do know he’s preparing a display for the Smithsonian on the history of videogames. I would guess this to be related.

#20

Wow. That’s an end of an era. Thanks for all your contributions setting up this community and I’ll be looking forward to seeing your new venture when it’s up and running.

Stay in touch!