Q&A: Sun's Simon Phipps details open source strategy
July 24, 2006—As the chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, Simon Phipps has been busy in recent months with various open source initiatives. The company released OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris 10 Unix operating system last year, and more recently unveiled plans to make its Java programming language open source. In an interview with Computerworld, Phipps talked about Sun's upcoming open source strategy and about what he called the incorrect view that Sun isn't fully committed to open source software. Phipps, who joined Sun in 2000, has worked in IT for more than 20 years as a programmer, engineer, systems analyst, and strategist for various companies, including IBM.
Todd R. Weiss, July 2006

Get creative with Wicked Cool Java
Every now and then, a really interesting and helpful Java book appears: Wicked Cool Java is one example. In this article, Jeff Friesen reviews this book chapter by chapter and concludes with a brief interview with its author, Brian D. Eubanks.
Jeff Friesen, March 2006

Borland: Interest, but no buyer for tools line
March 6, 2006— Deciding to concentrate on ALM (application lifecycle management), Borland Software last month announced plans to sell off its faltering JBuilder Java IDE business, as well as its Windows tools platform, including Delphi. With its SDO (Software Delivery Optimization) for ALM, Borland is squaring off against formidable opponents in IBM and Microsoft. With nearly a month having passed since Borland's announcement, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke to Borland's Erik Frieberg, vice president of product marketing and strategy, about the company's intentions, and to get a progress report on the planned sale of Borland's developer tool lines.
Paul Krill, March 2006

Sun's Keller: No plans to join Eclipse
July 11, 2005—Joe Keller is vice president of marketing for Java Web Services and Tools at Sun Microsystems, responsible for driving the company's product direction in these areas. Previously, he was involved in the company's iPlanet division, where he minded integration and commerce application technologies. Before joining Sun, he managed the sale of artificial intelligence products at Texas Instruments. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Keller at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco about where Java is today and where it is headed, along with touching on the progress of Web services and ongoing questions about whether Sun might join the Eclipse Foundation.
Paul Krill, July 2005

BEA's Patrick discusses Project Free Flow
June 13, 2005—Paul Patrick is the chief architect for BEA Systems' Project Free Flow product release. Project Free Flow is intended to enable deployment of services infrastructure for SOA (service-oriented architecture), with an enterprise service bus serving as a key component. Previously, Patrick worked on CORBA technology at Digital Equipment. InfoWorld editor at large Paul Krill recently interviewed Patrick about SOA, Project Free Flow, and other topics, including the company's relationship with Java founder Sun Microsystems.
Paul Krill, June 2005

Jini's relevance emerges, Part 2
In Part 2 of this interview, Sun Microsystems Fellow and Chief Engineer Rob Gingell compares the ability of Web services and Jini to deal with network failure and system change. He also discusses polyarchic systems, intellectual property, the JDK's role in relation to Jini, and Liberty Alliance.
Frank Sommers, August 2002

Jini's relevance emerges, Part 1
JavaWorld columnist Frank Sommers talks with Sun Microsystems' Fellow and Chief Engineer Rob Gingell. In Part 1 of this interview, Gingell discusses the role of Jini in Sun's new software organization; the relationship between Jini, Web services, and the Sun ONE (Open Network Environment) initiative; and the rationale for document-centered Web services versus mobile object systems. (4,600 words; August 16, 2002).
Frank Sommers, August 2002

James Gosling and the art of computer programming
When James Gosling isn't preaching Java's virtues, he spends his days in a quiet corner office at Sun Labs, dreaming up new ways to help programmers manage complexity. With the Star Trek Borg mask he wore at a prior JavaOne keynote staring down from a shelf, Gosling spoke to JavaWorld's Bill Venners about current programming trends, and his views on the design and construction of software systems.
Bill Venners, March 2002

Joshua Bloch: A conversation about design

Bill Venners, January 2002

Jini-talk with Jim Waldo
Frank Sommers and Bill Venners recently caught up with Jini architect Jim Waldo at JavaWorld's San Francisco office. In this interview, Waldo talks about the impact of mobility on distributed systems, Jini as a tool to reengineer the corporate MIS infrastructure, the importance of type systems, and the semantic Web.
Frank Sommers With Bill Venners, November 2001

Jini in the age of reusable applications
Ted Achacoso, CTO of GroupServe, discusses the increasing need for network-aware business applications in the enterprise. He suggests that Jini can help enterprise developers in that endeavor, and, in particular, help developers of Web services.
Bill Venners, October 2001

Sun lets Jini Starter Kit 1.1 out of the bottle
JavaWorld author Frank Sommers caught up with Jim Waldo, Jini architect and Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer, via telephone. In this interview, Waldo discusses the Jini 1.1 release and Jini's role in enterprise systems, offers advice on introducing business-specific APIs into Jini, and gives insight into scaling Jini down to the smallest devices and up to worldwide networks. (5,000 words)
Frank Sommers, December 2000

Power from the people
Nelson Minar, formerly of MIT Media Lab, is CTO of Popular Power, a Silicon Valley startup that uses Java to link together otherwise idle computers into a virtual supercomputer -- and pays participants for their time. Popular Power's first project, currently up and running, harnesses disparate computers to crunch data related to the influenza virus. It all fits into Popular Power's goal of harnessing idle computer time and geek testosterone for both profit and the public good. (4,300 words)
Mark Johnson, October 2000

An interview with James Gosling
On May 31, JavaOne Today reporter Bill Venners rode his bicycle up to Sun Labs in Mountain View, Calif., and spoke with James Gosling, the inventor of Java and a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems. In this interview, Gosling talks about his current interest in developer tools, his recent work on the realtime JVM, the practicality of mobile objects, the importance of strict interfaces, the reasons package access is default, and the robotic light bulbs at a Doobie Brothers concert. (4,700 words)
Bill Venners, June 2000

Pat pushes Java forward
Patricia Sueltz, president of the Software Products and Platforms Division at Sun Microsystems, discusses her accomplishments since joining the company more than six months ago, Sun's new and future Java technologies, the Java Community Process -- and how she likes her new job. (2,000 words)
Javaworld Editors, June 2000

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