Sunday morning, Sander, Bert, Paul and me again stood in front of the Moscone. To be honest, no appreciation event can ever top last year’s, when Pearl Jam gave a concert that rocked the whole island! Java came home Once there, they listen to a concert, enjoy food and drinks and even have some fun in one of the many attractions that includes a ferris wheel. It also meant that we gained things like the appreciation event, an evening on Treasure Island when approximately 16.000 people take an endless stream of free busses to an island with the most gorgeous view of the San Francisco skyline by night ever. This meant that JavaOne got merged with the Oracle OpenWorld event and got pushed out of the Moscone into neighbouring hotels. Oracle has taken over stewardship of Java since the demise of Sun. ![]() We did! Fast forwardįast forward about ten years… A lot has happened since. We were not in the slightest bit bothered by the fact that nobody else in the room (filled with literally thousands of people) understood what they were talking about. Those were exciting times, and Hans and me were impressed with Nokia’s plans at the time. One of the partners during that keynote was Nokia (remember them, they used to be the biggest mobile phone company in the world) and they presented a phone that was running OSGi: a special developer version of their flagship Communicator. It was in the early days of Luminis, when one of our biggest projects relied heavily on OSGi and provisioning and mobile phones were using CLDC to mainly run games. On stage were the big guns of that time, Scott McNealy, Jonathan Schwartz and of course the “father of Java”, James Gosling. It “accidentally” hit it big in the enterprise years later and the rest is history. ![]() Back in those days, Sun was still in control of Java, a language that came from one of their research labs and originally was meant for embedded applications. I still vividly remember my first visit to San Francisco, going to the huge Moscone convention center with Hans for the first time, standing in the endless line to register and get in and finally making it to an enormous underground room where the opening keynote is given. Back in timeĪ JavaOne conference is always something special. Sometimes however, something happens that warrants an extra soundbyte, and this week has been such an occasion. Every week, usually on Sunday evening, one of us writes a soundbyte about some personal experience, news, or anything else that might have happened that week that is noteworthy.
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