Sun Microsystems' chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos has gained responsibility over Sun's nearly US$2bn research and development facility.
Rently named chief executive Jonathan Schwartz detailed Papadopoulos' new role on a blog posted on Saturday. (Note the "the geeks are in charge" title in the URL of the blog.)
Schwartz said Papadopoulos is now CTO and executive vice president of research and development, with the CTOs of individual products reporting to him.
The move indicates Sun's commitment to systems-level technology innovation, Schwartz said.
"You can't build a network computing company without a chief architect to coordinate nearly $2bn in R&D. And as a systems company, we now have a chief systems architect," Schwartz wrote.
