New Horizon
March 26, 2012 § 53 Comments
I have resigned from Oracle and thus will soon leave the GlassFish group.
I feel very proud looking back at what we’ve achieved as a team with GlassFish in the past few years, including those past two years at Oracle. If you know anything about the history of application servers at Sun, you’ll recognize that building such a community around GlassFish and its amazing number of downloads is nothing short of a small miracle. The Java EE platform has also seen a strong resurgence, bringing it back to the forefront of effective enterprise Java development in many ways.
Having been hired by Sun some 13 years ago to sell NetDynamics I certainly feel that I leave the company’s application server in *much* better shape. Oracle has ambitious plans for GlassFish and has been in my opinion a good steward for this community. I see no reason for this to change and I do expect the community to keep on pushing Oracle to get even better with time.
This ride has been intense and the people I’ve met and worked with, both inside and outside Sun/Oracle, have made the experience the best one of my career.
My journey now continues here: alexismp.wordpress.com. See you there!
Alexis,
Can’t believe this. It feels as if I know you since ages (knowing, that this isn’t true ;)). I hate to see you go. Still wishing you the best for your future and I hope we meet again someday. Hope to see you around in Java and EE again shortly. Curious about your next gig!
Take care!
It was a pleasure working and sometimes fighting with you!
-Markus
thanks Markus! When I wrote about the “community pushing Oracle” I meant you (and a few others)! ;)
Thanks :)
Good luck in your new Gig Alexis! Have fun :)
Merci François, let’s stay in touch!
Alexis,
It was a pleasure working with you for the brief time that our paths crossed at Oracle. The team you work with next will be very lucky to have you.
Cheers,
James
Thanks James. I’m sure our paths will cross again! Take care.
Lucky is the company that has hired you.
We’ll miss your energy here.
Have a wonderful “next”
Merci Thierry.
Alexis,
It’s about time ;-)
I’m wishing you the best for your new ventures. And I’m sure our paths will cross again soon.
Take care.
Ludo
Let’s say the time was “right”. We’ll certainly meet again soon.
Good luck, and I hope to meet in you “next” environment as well. :-)
Thanks Helena. I do hope we’ll meet again soon, in Sweden or elsewhere!
Alexis,
thank you for all you did with Oracle and for the Glassfish community,
Good luck for your next big thing !
Cedric
Merci Cédric. I had a lot of fun working on GlassFish, glad it was useful to many.
Good luck Alexis.
Thanks Chuk! Keep up the Java energy in your part of the world and elsewhere!
Congratulations – wish you all the best – stay in touch.
Thanks Lasse. I’ll keep fond memories of my trips to Oslo!
Hey Alexis,
Big loss for Oracle to let you go. Good luck in your new endeavors and hope to meet you again soon!
Bert
thanks Bert. Yes, we’ll meet again I’m sure. Thanks for your energy!
You’ve done an awesome work at Sun then Oracle, and way beyond duty. It’s been a pleasure meeting someone with so much positive energy and humanity.
I’m sure you’ll have an awesome input at your next job!
Congratulations and see you soon.
Wow, thanks Julien! I loved working with you. Mutual respect produces great results!
Good luck with your next job and thanks for all the hard work and energy you put into the Glassfish community. Was nice meeting you on occasion.
I enjoyed every bit of GlassFish Community interaction I’ve had over the years. I’m glad you’ve gotten some out of it.
Bye Alexis and merci beaucoup for everything you’ve done so far… and for everything you’re still going to be doing!
Thanks Geertjan. I loved competing for top spot on blogs.sun.com and blogs.oracle.com with TheAquarium ! :)
Wish you best of luck with the journey ahead. Hope to see you around sometime.
thanks Masoud! I trust you’ll prove to be a great addition to this team.
This is a small world, we’ll meet again!
Good luck, Alexis. Thanks for the way you’ve shepherded the GlassFish community over the years.
Thanks Laird. It was super useful having someone like you tirelessly push the enveloppe. Please keep it up!
I’m glad to see my Bistrot is still open … wish you all the best for your new adventures
Merci Jean-Marc. You’ve been a great shepherd within Oracle!
The work you did with the Glassfish community was inspirational! A big loss for Oracle, but a big win for your next venture – looking forward to hearing more details!
Brian
Thanks Brian!
It was fun working together on GlassFish at Sun; a great opportunity to craft many new approaches to create community *and* good products.
Oracle was lucky to keep you as long as it did but change is good for you! As Sacha would say… Onward!
Thanks Eduardo! You’ve been a wonderful mentor. What a great time I had working with you and the team at Sun.
Thanks so much for your GlassFish work and best of luck in the future!
Cheers,
Cay
Thanks Cay! You and Elvis have done a lot yourself to help us promote GlassFish ;)
It was a pleasure working with you. Thanks for everything you have done for GlassFish! Please keep in touch.
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Nazrul
It was a pleasure working with you. Thanks for everything you have done for GlassFish! Please keep in touch.
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Nazrul
Thanks Nazrul. Good luck on the future!
congrats Alexis ! and all the best for what’s next !
Merci François!
Congrats Alexis and wish you all the best for what’s next !
Hi Alexis, it was a great pleasure to work with you on GlassFish.
You are the guy who makes positive things happen ! Your next employer is so lucky :)
See you soon.
Jérôme, you and the Serli team have done a terrific job contributing key new features to GlassFish.
Keep those OSS contributions going!
(oops repost from the old blog). I wish you all the best, its been my pleasure meeting you all these years through the SUn and oracle Channels as evangelist and GlassFish Community lead rep. I hope you will pay us a visit in Greece in your next ‘mission’. Greetings from Athens Greece.
(oops repost from the old blog). I wish you all the best, its been my pleasure meeting you all these years through the Sun and Oracle ‘channels’ as evangelist and GlassFish Community lead rep. I hope you will pay us a visit in Greece in your next ‘mission’. Greetings from Athens Greece.
Looking forward to what you are doing next. Thanks for all you did.
Bonne chance Alexis. Perhaps we’ll see again in Africa!
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