Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > 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."
http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2006/11/the_people_who_.html ------ Hi, Is it true that Graham has left Sun? (http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/geir/archives/001429_graham_too.html) Regards, Behi Posted by: Behrang | Nov 14, 2006 3:48:38 PM [...] Behrang, Yes, it is indeed true. Dr. Hamilton was one of the principal voices against open-sourcing Java, and in my experience he's a "my way or the highway" kind of guy...so not surprising that he's opted out of the new "age of participation" Sun. I found it interesting that Rich Green publicly thanked him during the event on Monday. I know many at Sun and in the larger Java community were sad to see him go. So far no word on what he plans to do next. Danese Posted by: Danese Cooper | Nov 15, 2006 6:40:36 PM ------ > > 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
