An airhacks.fm (https://airhacks.fm) conversation with Wolfgang Weigend (@wolflook (https://twitter.com/wolflook) ) about:
Atari 520 ST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST) over XT 286,
Motorola 68000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000) and C-Compilers for Atari 520 ST,
first software company in 1987,
Systems Engineer for Java and GraalVM (https://www.graalvm.org) ,
electronic engineer at Dupont (https://www.dupont.com) ,
GSI (https://www.gsi.de) in Darmstadt,
writing networking software and an ERP system from scratch,
controlling laser light shows,
how to create noise with electronic devices,
modis (https://www.modis.com/en-gb/specialisms/systems-applications-products/) was succeeded by KHK / sage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_Group) ,
learning enterprises by joining Oracle,
analysing network stacks,
optimising databases on Texas Instruments,
joining Sun Microsystems in 1997,
evangelising Java at Sun Microsystems,
the challenge of buying a Sun Sparc Station,
learning Java at Sun Microsystems,
Java case study for German Railways,
no one wanted to use Java on the server side,
NetDynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetDynamics_Application_Server) vs. Java Web Server,
joining BEA after WebLogic acquisition,
Andy Piper wrote clustering for WebLogic,
BEA was the fastest growing company,
Oracle bought BEA (https://www.zdnet.com/article/surprise-oracle-buys-bea-systems/) in October 2008,
Deutsche Bank online banking system, and several hundreds projects at Deutsche Bahn were Java / WebLogic based,
DHL and Deutsche Post were also heavy Java / BEA users,
J2EE and Java EE allow developers focus on real problems,
Java EE is a remedy against bike shedding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality) ,
Wolfgang Weigend on twitter: @wolflook (https://twitter.com/wolflook)