XML co-author Tim Bray has joined Sun as technical director of the software group. He spoke with eWeek's Steve Gillmor. Bray: "If you look at where things are going in the area of search and XML and RSS, you kind of smell a bit of a nexus happening in there with lots of exciting things coming out of it." Bray: "I'm interested in the information flows ... There are a lot of potentially game-changing things coming down the pipe." Bray: "the notion of attention ... that's potentially super hot stuff." Bray: "As Jim Gray says, 'Memory is the new disk. Disks are the new tape.'" Gillmor: What's your take on social software? Bray: "I just totally don't get it." I really thought Tim had it there for a second. Too bad Bill Joy already skipped out; a Joy-Bray collaboration would have been interesting. Even so, the Jim Gray meme is right on point. I've been saying that since before I saw Gray at MIT two years ago, telling everyone about how Next Day FedEx could offer higher bandwidth at lower cost than any telco. (Consider the 747 as an extremely long, fat pipe and brown cardboard boxes as packets.) Tim Bray, on New Role at Sun | 
