One of the more visible technical bloggers out there, Tim Bray, landed a job Sun Microsystems. Congratulations Tim, and you're absolutely right -- when someone can make a decision and make things happen quickly, that's when you know it's a company you want to work for.

You can bet that his blog has something to do with why he got hired, and I like the fact that his new job meshes well with his blogging lifestyle. He says "...this job is going to be pretty public-facing, so you’ll find out lots of what I’m doing more or less as I do it." Looks like Sun is starting to ride the cluetrain too, and they get a great voice in Tim. If only all of us bloggers could blog like that and find jobs like that. :)

The rest of his post is a rather interesting dump on Microsoft and .NET, which you should read if you're a .NET developer (read his disclaimers, they are interesting as well). On one hand I try to keep my distance from the .NET platform because of some of those arguments. But on the other I read about and use C#, the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and the Framework Class Library (FCL) so I'll know what other languages like Java, its JVM and class libraries are competing against and in which areas they are falling behind to .NET.