September 2008 Tertulia focused on distributed work

At the Fall 2008 Tertulia (September 25), Glenn Dirks and Edel Keville reviewed lessons learned about distributed work as a result of Sun's merger with MySQL. MySQL has been featured in Fortune magazine as a virtual organization success story- with 400 employees, in 30 countries, 70% of whom work from home. Even though the Open Work program at Sun Microsystems is well established, with over 50% of its employees working flexibly, and with proven work practices, places and technologies for collaborating in a distributed and mobile workforce, Sun saw an opportunity to enhance its approach to work still further with the acquisition of MySQL early this year. Attendees learned how that experience is being applied at Sun, and how it could benefit their organizations.