Simon Phipps (programmer)

Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.

[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.