Boy, if Sun went to that much trouble to rehire Karen Tegan-Padir, then this must be an employee worth doing whatever is needed to keep happy! Then again, it could just be Sun pressing the panic button in response to all of the execs leaving recently.

Sun Microsystems has rehired Karen Tegan-Padir, an executive it lost to Red Hat last year.

Tegan-Padir is now leading development of Sun’s Java server software, the computing giant confirmed Tuesday.

She previously had been vice president of engineering for Sun’s application server software. She left in 2004 to lead Red Hat’s desktop software initiative. Now back at Sun, Tegan-Padir is working in the same domain as before, with the title vice president of engineering for the Enterprise Java Platforms Group, Sun said. [Read the rest]