Simon Phipps

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Simon Phipps

Computer Science

#1028

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#1065

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Database

#288

World Rank

#301

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Why Is Simon Phipps Influential?

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

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