George Paolini is executive vice president of Platform Ecosystems, SAP AG, and drives SAP's Enterprise Services Community Process. Prior to joining SAP, he was the founder of the Java Community Process, the widely renowned forum that energized a revolution in software programming that today has Java recognized as one of the most widely used technologies globally.
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 positio...
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 fil...
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 th...
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 neve...
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.
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 ...
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