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Graham Lovell
Email Address: Available - on approval - from Mel Ashton
Click Here for 'Initial Information' (28/10/02) Including Graham's tribute to our late colleague George Eyre.

Isherwood's Period
	From Dec 1973 to summer 1977 After which I, of course, knew everything, being still a teenager.
Mel's Email to Graham 24/03/10
	Hi Graham, I hope that you and your family are doing ok .... While updating JavaScript for myself and others - www.hartsvilla.co.uk (Video Tour) - I note that Sun Microsystems have been taken over by Oracle ?? On January 27, 2010, Oracle announced it finalized its acquisition of Sun. This combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle's portfolio of database, middleware, and business applications, we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box. Each layer of the stack will be architected to improve performance, leverage innovation and centralize management so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will benefit as their system performance, reliability and security goes up and their system integration and management costs go down. How are you doing with the acquisition - well I HOPE ? Regards, Mel Ashton


Graham's Reply 24/03/10
	Hi Mel Yes, strange to be part of a big company take-over like this. we have usually been the acquirer over the 20 years I have been with Sun. Oracle is a huge company 4x the size of Sun and is, frankly, a much better run company too. We are about 60 days into the changes and all is going remarkably smoothly. We did lose some staff at the time of integration and will likely "fine tune" a little along the way. For may part, I have done well out of the changes, with a broader role and added responsibilities (no extra compensation though of course). The opportunity ahead for Oracle is significant. They currently sell all of the hardware and virtually none of the hardware (servers, storage, networking) to their customers. With revenues at $25B a year, we could easily double that in 2-3 years with incremental hardware sales alone. Oracle did pick up some very significant software assets too, ones like the open source MySQL, Java, Solaris and Identity Management. Family is doing well with the recent addition of a grandson, Logan. Best Suzie & Graham Absolutely delighted things have gone so well for you all Graham, VERY Best wishes to ALL, Mel - now 02:15am !! 25/03/10

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