Simon Phipps (programmer)

Short description: Computer scientist and web and open source advocate

Simon Phipps at the Wikimedia Foundation office in April 2018

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.[1] He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper.[2] Under Phipps, most of Sun's core software was released under open source licenses, including Solaris and Java.[3]

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[4] before becoming an independent consultant. In 2015 he briefly joined Wipro Technologies as director of their open source advisory practice.[5]

Phipps was President of the Open Source Initiative[6][7] until 2015 when he stepped down in preparation for the end of his Board term in 2016,[8] and was re-elected in 2017 and re-appointed President by the Board in September 2017.[9] He was a board member of the Open Rights Group[10] and The Document Foundation[11] and on the advisory board of Open Source for America.[12] He has served on a number of advisory boards for other projects, including as CEO of the MariaDB Foundation,[13][14][15] and at the GNOME Foundation,[16] OpenSolaris,[17] OpenJDK,[18] and OpenSPARC[19] and most recently the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.[20]

He has appeared as a guest and occasional co-host on episodes of the FLOSS Weekly podcast.[21]

## References

1. ↑ "Ibm Java Evangelist Speaks Of Java Tsunami". Business Library. May 26, 1998. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_n3418/ai_20635325/.
2. ↑ Montalbano, Elizabeth (2005-08-18). "Sun exec takes control of open source projects" (in en). http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/sun-exec-takes-control-open-source-projects-428.
3. ↑ Berlind, David (November 13, 2006). "The ripple effect of a GPL'd Java will reach far and wide". Between the Lines. ZDNet. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3937.
4. ↑ "Simon Phipps joins open identity startup ForgeRock". 10 May 2010. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Simon-Phipps-joins-open-identity-startup-ForgeRock-996390.html.
5. ↑ Phipps, Simon (2 March 2015). "New role at Wipro". http://webmink.com/2015/03/02/new-job/. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
6. ↑ "Board - Annotated". http://www.opensource.org/docs/board-annotated.
7. ↑ "OSI Board Meeting Report". webmink's blog. Open Source Initiative. 2013-05-11. http://opensource.org/node/662. Retrieved 2013-05-14.
8. ↑ Phipps, Simon (2015-05-14). "Handing On The Baton". Open Source Initiative. http://opensource.org/node/747. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
9. ↑ Randal, Allison (2017-09-28). "Transitions in Leadership". https://opensource.org/node/902. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
10. ↑ "Directors". http://www.openrightsgroup.org/people/board#simon_phipps.
11. ↑ "Board". The Document Foundation. https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/board/. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
12. ↑ "Board of Advisors". Archived from the original on 2010-02-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20100209040108/http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/board. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
13. ↑ Phipps, Simon (2013-04-18). "Taking MariaDB Foundation Forward". Webmink. https://webmink.com/2013/04/18/taking-mariadb-foundation-forward/. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
14. ↑ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (2013-04-23). "Look out, Oracle: SkySQL and MariaDB join forces". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/look-out-oracle-skysql-and-mariadb-join-forces-7000014411/. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
15. ↑ Phipps, Simon (Oct 1, 2014). "SkySQL bought the MariaDB trademark when it purchased Monty's company Monty Program AB, and it has decided to rename itself using the trademark (like MongoDB before it).". Google+. https://plus.google.com/+SimonPhipps/posts/awZg3aBfA33. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
16. ↑ "About the GNOME Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-09-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110908000029/http://foundation.gnome.org/about/. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
17. ↑ "Poll 4: Board Election 2009/Change Constitution". Archived from the original on 2009-10-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20091030220617/http://poll.opensolaris.org/4/. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
18. ↑ "Governing Board". http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/.
19. ↑ "Governance". 2 October 2006. http://www.opensparc.net/community/governance.html.
20. ↑ "We strive to be transparent.". https://wiki.almalinux.org/Transparency.html.
21. ↑ "FLOSS Weekly episodes with Simon Phipps". https://twit.tv/episodes?filter[shows]=1639&credits_people=56711. Retrieved 2021-02-07.

## External links

* Simon Phipps personal blog
* Meshed Insights Business Information (consultancy site)

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