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As I mentioned in my farewell to Sun, I am excited by the future; as you may have seen, that future is joining Joyent as their VP of Engineering. So, why Joyent? I have known Joyeurs like Jason, Dave, Mark and Ben since back when the “cloud” was still just something that you drew up on a whiteboard as a placeholder for the in-between crap that someone else was going to build and operate. But what Joyent was doing was very much what we now call cloud computing – it was just that in describing Joyent in those pre-cloud days, I found it difficult to convey exactly why what they were doing was exciting (even though to me it clearly was). I found that my conversations with others about Joyent always ended up in the ditch of “virtual hosting”, a label that grossly diminished the level of innovation that I saw in Joyent. Fortunately for my ability to explain the company, “cloud” became infused with much deeper meaning – one that matched Joyent’s vision for itself.

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