Simon Phipps demonstrates how Sun gets modern PR in ways that a lot of companies just don't - like, say, IBM:

Now here's an interesting difference in corporate styles. I remember when I left IBM in 2000, the (extensive) mentions of me on IBM's web pages were gradually edited away until today, six years later, there seems to be only one or two left that date from my pre-Sun days (doubtless they will also get expunged now). This one's interesting - my job title has been changed to Sun even though I was still at IBM on the date I gave the talk (7 months before I gave my notice in fact).

I understand the IBM reaction - the common corporate action when an employee leaves is to airbrush them out of existence. It's nice to see that there are companies who don't do that. Here, when one of the bloggers either leaves or stops blogging, I just turn comments off, so that it doesn't become spam stew. I don't have any intention of airbrushing anything out.

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