In the wake of its acquisition by Oracle, many of Sun's IT bigwigs took flight (by choice or otherwise). Today, one of them landed, as Tim Bray, Sun's former director of Web technologies, started his first day at Google. And with Google's rivalry with Apple building, it's worth noting that Bray wasted no time firing a verbal volley or two.

The Jonathan Schwartz farewell tour came to an end Wednesday, when the Sun Microsystems CEO chose Twitter as the venue for his last words.

"Today's my last day at Sun," tweeted Schwartz. "I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more."