Interesting... http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP05/Graham+Hamilton
------ Graham Hamilton is a Vice President and Fellow within the Java platform team at Sun Microsystems. His main focus is on the use of the Java platform for large scale enterprise and web development. He also has a strong focus on attracting new developers to the Java platform. Graham joined the Java team in 1995 and has contributed to a wide variety of Java technology initiatives, including technologies such as CORBA support, the JDBC APIs, JavaBeans, the Java Plug-in, RMI-IIOP, JAX-RPC, and others. Most recently he has acted as the specification lead for J2SE releases 1.3 and 1.4. Graham has helped encourage community participation in Java API development and he was one of the designers of the Java Community Process. Graham's current activities include acting as Sun's primary representative on the JCP J2SE/J2EE Executive Committee, helping to develop the specification for the next release of J2SE, leading an Ease-of-Development initiative within the Java platform team, and working with Sun's tools group on new tools initiatives. Graham has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Sun he worked for ICL in England, and for Digital Equipment in California and Washington. He has 32 US patents on a variety of software topics. ------ http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/009063.html (Sun exec departs over Java move) More colorful: http://java.sys-con.com/read/304709.htm ------ Open Source Java Claims Its First Casualty: Graham Hamilton, Sun Fellow and VP, Quits An uncompromising advocate of Java compatibility, Dr Graham Hamilton - Sun Fellow and VP - has parted company with the new "age of participation" Sun in the wake of its decision, announced last week, to open-source its implementation of Java. One of the principal voices against open-sourcing Java, the departure of Hamilton was nonetheless greeted with sadness by proponents of the cause like Danese Cooper, who notes "I know many at Sun and in the larger Java community were sad to see him go." Geir Magnusson, while conceding that he and Hamitlon "didn't see eye to eye," nonetheless declared him "one of my heros" and called it "a significant loss for Sun, and the Java ecosystem as a whole." "I'm proud to say that I've worked with Dr. Hamilton," Magnusson added, "and hope to do so again in the future." ------ http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/geir/archives/001429_graham_too.html ------ Graham too? I've just heard that one of my heros, Dr. Graham Hamilton, has left Sun. Graham was the Sun rep on the JCP EC, which is how I met him. A Sun Fellow and a VP, he was an uncompromising advocate of Java compatibility who simply didn't understand that my advocacy of open source was aligned with the "compatibility promise". Needless to say, we didn't see eye to eye. That said, this is a significant loss for Sun, and the Java ecosystem as a whole. I'm proud to say that I've worked with Dr. Hamilton, and hope to do so again in the future. ------ regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
