Articles by George Paolini

Ten Years Ago This Month, Java Was 1000 Days Old

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:30:00 EDT

Ten years ago this month, Java was 1000 days old. Here we bring an article by the then Vice President of Marketing for Sun's Software Products and Platforms, George Paolini. Ten years on, we thought it might make interesting reading, since even back then Sun's community-focused position was clear: 'The Java platform was grown and evolved by a global community of developers on the World Wide Web,' wrote Paolini.

Web Services: Implications for Business Processes

Fri, 24 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

I love Web services, for all the things they can't do. It's not that I'm a pessimist, prone to look at the glass as half empty. Quite the contrary. Whenever I hear about Web services, I think about all the promises that won't be kept, and to me that looks like an opportunity to fill a void. Web services will undoubtedly create an avalanche of new development opportunities. By standardizing interfaces and protocols, we can provide a common way for applications to communicate and data to be transmitted.

A Call to Action for the Java Technology Community

Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 EDT

We live in a world of high anxiety. We're concerned about the competition, fearful we'll fall behind the curve, worried that making up lost ground might prove impossible. So we hastily turn to technology, which obligingly always seems to have a solution. Well, at least it says so in the marketing brochure.…

Refining the Process

Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00:00 EST

For many years I was the world's greatest parent. Then I had kids. Before my kids were born, I knew all the answers to successful child-rearing. And as the self-appointed expert I was quick to impart my wisdom to friends and family. Things sure were simpler then, and best of all I never made mistakes.

Innovation Without Disruption

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 EST

When I was a lad, I tell my kids, life was hard. We had to walk everywhere, for instance. And not only that, we had to carry our own data. On things called floppies. Back then, we had to manually move information from one computer to the next. We did all this work by hand.

A Sign of the Times

Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00:00 EDT

If you had to conjure an image that best serves as a "sign of the times," what might it be? Perhaps a screen shot of a rare Partridge Family album being auctioned off for an incredible sum on e-Bay. Or how about a staged photo op of some of those starched-white-shirt telco and cable guys shaking hands in the latest billion-dollar megamerger. This might be more likely: hip-looking X-gens tipping their plastic champagne glasses to celebrate as their IPO turns them into instant multimillionaires. All good images, to be sure.